opera house

noun

: a theater devoted principally to the performance of operas
broadly : theater

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Among them are tens of students at the academy at La Scala, Milan and Italy’s most prestigious opera house, who Wednesday morning practiced their choreography in a heated white tent, steps away from San Siro. Claudio Lavanga, NBC news, 30 Jan. 2026 The sound globes rotated 340 degrees to project a cone of sound and could be tuned to re-create the environment in which the music was originally recorded—a concert hall, cathedral, nightclub, or opera house. Allison Marsh, IEEE Spectrum, 24 Jan. 2026 Le Mindu spent a lot of time learning in the ateliers of the Leipzig and Berlin opera houses, for instance. Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 16 Jan. 2026 There’s nothing like a showpiece opera house to mark your city out as architecturally sophisticated. Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 1 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for opera house

Word History

First Known Use

1720, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of opera house was in 1720

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“Opera house.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/opera%20house. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.

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