Television genre, episodic work of dramatic fiction.
A television serial about the lives of melodramatic characters, which are often filled with strong emotions, highly dramatic situations and suspense.
1Everybody needs good neighbours, as the Australian soap opera's theme song begins.
2Nightflyers breaks up the space-horror tension with good old-fashioned soap opera fare.
3IN THE 1980S I religiously watched every prime-time American soap opera going.
4Moses Bedemier must have read himself to sleep with soap opera gossip.
5The greatest soap opera on Earth has entered a bizarre new episode.
6It combines game shows, talent contests, soap opera, all sorts of things.
7I'm not going to make a soap opera out of the thing.
8The Eircom Saga bears all the signs of a long-running soap opera.
9Gillard watched as her prime ministership was transformed into a soap opera.
10But the plot is straight out of a US daytime soap opera.
11They could, but who would watch a soap opera where nobody kissed?
12It must have been like a total soap opera moment, Max said.
13Lopez has appeared in telenovelas, a Spanish-language soap opera genre, in Venezuela.
14The soap opera of her life has muted Bell's own artistic achievement.
15It looked like a casting call for some high-end European soap opera.
16I was the guy talking to soap opera stars and supervising makeovers.
Translations for soap opera