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Meanings of soap opera in English

Russian
мыльная опера
Portuguese
soap opera
Spanish
serial televisivo
Catalan
fulletó

Television genre, episodic work of dramatic fiction.

        Related terms
        мыльная опера

        A television serial about the lives of melodramatic characters, which are often filled with strong emotions, highly dramatic situations and suspense.

              Usage of soap opera in English
              1
              Everybody needs good neighbours, as the Australian soap opera's theme song begins.
              The Irish Times
              2
              Nightflyers breaks up the space-horror tension with good old-fashioned soap opera fare.
              The Verge
              3
              IN THE 1980S I religiously watched every prime-time American soap opera going.
              The Irish Times
              4
              Moses Bedemier must have read himself to sleep with soap opera gossip.
              Three to get deadly and four to score
              5
              The greatest soap opera on Earth has entered a bizarre new episode.
              The South African
              6
              It combines game shows, talent contests, soap opera, all sorts of things.
              The new yorker
              7
              I'm not going to make a soap opera out of the thing.
              Reuters
              8
              The Eircom Saga bears all the signs of a long-running soap opera.
              The Irish Times
              9
              Gillard watched as her prime ministership was transformed into a soap opera.
              The Guardian
              10
              But the plot is straight out of a US daytime soap opera.
              The Irish Times
              11
              They could, but who would watch a soap opera where nobody kissed?
              The Guardian
              12
              It must have been like a total soap opera moment, Max said.
              The Rebel
              13
              Lopez has appeared in telenovelas, a Spanish-language soap opera genre, in Venezuela.
              Reuters
              14
              The soap opera of her life has muted Bell's own artistic achievement.
              The Guardian
              15
              It looked like a casting call for some high-end European soap opera.
              The athena project: a thriller
              16
              I was the guy talking to soap opera stars and supervising makeovers.
              Here's the deal: don't touch me
              Translations for soap opera
              Portuguese
              soap opera
              Catalan
              fulletó