Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A creative work, especially a musical composition numbered to designate the order of a composer's works.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Work; a work, as a literary or musical composition (in the latter use often abbreviated op.).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mus.) A work
- noun (Arch.) See under
Incertum .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
work ofmusic or set of works with a specified rank in an ordering of a composer's complete published works. - noun A
work , especially ofart .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a musical work that has been created
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
Boing Boing 2009
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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.
Archive 2009-04-01 Gordon McCabe 2009
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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.
Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009
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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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But the Bernstein comes across as an earnest effort to resuscitate a work of limited merit, while the Strauss opus is an unexpected delight.
'A Quiet Place,''Intermezzo' Show NYC Opera At Its Best AP 2010
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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.
Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009
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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 David Finkle 2010
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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 David Finkle 2010
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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 David Finkle 2010
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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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