soap-opera
11soap opera — ► NOUN ▪ a television or radio drama serial dealing with daily events in the lives of the same group of characters. ORIGIN so named because such serials were originally sponsored in the US by soap manufacturers …
12soap opera — ☆ soap opera n. Informal a radio or television serial drama of a highly melodramatic, sentimental nature: so called because many of the original sponsors were soap companies …
13Soap opera — For other uses, see Soap opera (disambiguation). A soap opera, sometimes called soap for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the… …
14Soap opera — Séries télévisées par période / genre / pays Liste complète Un soap opera (anglicisme, parfois abrégé en « soap ») ou roman savon (au Québec) est un type de feuilleton radiodiffusé ou télévisé. Cette désignation… …
15soap opera — /op euhr euh, op reuh/ a radio or television series depicting the interconnected lives of many characters often in a sentimental, melodramatic way. [1935 40, Amer.; so called because soap manufacturers were among the original sponsors of such… …
16soap opera — [20] The original soap operas were a radio phenomenon, in 1930s America. Serial dramas dealing with humdrum butoccasionally melodramatic domestic life were as common then as they are on television now, and several of those on the commercial US… …
17soap opera — [20] The original soap operas were a radio phenomenon, in 1930s America. Serial dramas dealing with humdrum butoccasionally melodramatic domestic life were as common then as they are on television now, and several of those on the commercial US… …
18soap opera — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms soap opera : singular soap opera plural soap operas a television or radio series about the imaginary lives of a group of people. A soap opera is often simply called a soap. • Etymology: The first series of this …
19soap opera — noun Etymology: from its sponsorship by soap manufacturers Date: 1939 1. a. a serial drama performed originally on a daytime radio or television program and chiefly characterized by tangled interpersonal situations and melodramatic or sentimental …
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