MAGNUM OPUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does magnum opus mean? 

• MAGNUM OPUS (noun)
  The noun MAGNUM OPUS has 1 sense:

1. a great work of art or literature

  Familiarity information: MAGNUM OPUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAGNUM OPUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A great work of art or literature

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("magnum opus" is a kind of...):

work of art (art that is a product of one of the fine arts (especially a painting or sculpture of artistic merit))

 Context examples 

Exactly, Watson. Here is the fruit of my leisured ease, the magnum opus of my latter years!

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)