Usually means: Large-scale opera, elaborate production.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word Grand opera:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. grand opera: Merriam-Webster
  2. grand opera: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. grand opera: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. grand opera: Collins English Dictionary
  5. grand opera: Vocabulary.com
  6. grand-opera: Wordnik
  7. grand opera: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. grand opera: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. grand opera: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. grand opera: Dictionary.com
  11. Grand Opera, Grand opera: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. grand opera: Rhymezone
  13. grand opera: FreeDictionary.org
  14. grand opera: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. grand opera: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. grand opera: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  17. grand opera: Wiktionary

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. grand opera: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (grand opera)

noun:  A genre of 19th-century opera characterized by large-scale casts and orchestras, and lavish and spectacular design and stage effects, normally with plots based on or around dramatic historic events.

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