opera house

noun

: a theater devoted principally to the performance of operas

broadly : theater

Examples of opera house in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In its heyday, the 1874 building housed not just the Strother Brothers’ Barber Shop, but El Paso’s first library room, telephone company, bank, City Hall and an opera house. — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 3 Nov. 2026

The event is typically held in the Kennedy Center’s opera house along the Potomac River, but it has been shifted to the Capital One Arena. — Laura Zornosa, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026

There was a small, inoperable well, an opera house and a carpenter’s studio, a dressmaker, a blacksmith, a bank. — Gaby Del Valle, The Verge, 29 Oct. 2026

Shen Hall, with 1,200 seats, draws inspiration from the spatial form of classical opera houses and can accommodate various performance types, including Baroque opera, classical opera, local operas, and dramas. — Wendy Wang, Architectural Digest, 22 Oct. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1720, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for opera house

• alehouse
• almshouse
• backhouse
• baghouse
• bakehouse
• bathhouse
• bauhaus
• blockhouse
• boathouse
• brewhouse
• bunkhouse
• clubhouse