Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A creative work, especially a musical composition numbered to designate the order of a composer's works.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A work of music or set of works with a specified rank in an ordering of a composer's complete published works.
- n. A work, especially of art.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A work
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Work; a work, as a literary or musical composition (in the latter use often abbreviated op.).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a musical work that has been created
Etymologies
Examples
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Nevertheless, the Kushner opus is so astonishing for its bravura reach that the most picayune critics would likely swap it in a heartbeat for a dozen safer but less ambitious comedy-dramas.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Tony Kushner's Angels in America Flies on Gossamer Wings
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The book, generally considered to be his magnum opus, is largely credited with creating the terminology and shape of modern macroeconomics.
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But the Bernstein comes across as an earnest effort to resuscitate a work of limited merit, while the Strauss opus is an unexpected delight.
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My reaction to this opus is probably the same as grim leading man Dave Willock, who spends the entire film looking as if he just ate some nasty fish.
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Created by former LucasArts adventure vet Tim Schafer (Day of the Tentacle, Grim Fandango) and starring Jack Black alongside a league of metal legends (Judas Priest's Rob Halford, Motorhead's Lemmy Kilmister, Lita Ford, and, of course, Black Sabbath's Ozzy Osbourne), the studio's open-world/driving/lite real-time-strategy opus is every medieval-apocalypse album cover brought to glorious life, finally fulfilling the wishes of two generations of disaffected patched-jean-jacketed and notebook-cover-doodling Hessians.
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Each square metre of this totally unremarkable watercourse, is worthy of its own treatise; each unit area deserves its own magnus opus from a fluid dynamicist.
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This stop motion animated opus is a reimagining of the classic Star Wars Tales comic book series from Dark Horse Comics in cinematic form.
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The first volume of this grand opus is a significant event.
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Unlike that above list of composers who either kept on with their longstanding tonal preference or reworked tonality into minimalist radicalism, Del Tredici's opus is such a conscious throwback, a deliberate re-creation of 19th-century Romantic rhetoric, that it would have been impossible to miss.
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Amidst all the rumors surrounding “The Hobbit,” the most prevalent seems to be that the two-part opus is already slated for the 3D and IMAX treatment.
‘The Hobbit’ In 3D and IMAX? Guillermo Del Toro Leaves Open The Possibility » MTV Movies Blog
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