COMIC OPERA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does comic opera mean? 

• COMIC OPERA (noun)
  The noun COMIC OPERA has 1 sense:

1. opera with a happy ending and in which some of the text is spoken

  Familiarity information: COMIC OPERA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMIC OPERA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Opera with a happy ending and in which some of the text is spoken

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

bouffe; comic opera; opera bouffe; opera comique

Hypernyms ("comic opera" is a kind of...):

opera (a drama set to music; consists of singing with orchestral accompaniment and an orchestral overture and interludes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "comic opera"):

light opera; operetta (a short amusing opera)

 Context examples 

To see him walking like a comic opera Sultan, with this badge of authority in his hand, his black beard bristling in front of him, his toes pointing at each step, and a train of wide-eyed Indian girls behind him, clad in their slender drapery of bark cloth, is one of the most grotesque of all the pictures which I will carry back with me.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)