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soap opera
[op-er-uh, op-ruh]
noun
a radio or television series depicting the interconnected lives of many characters often in a sentimental, melodramatic way.
soap opera
noun
a serialized drama, usually dealing with domestic themes and characterized by sentimentality, broadcast on radio or television
Word History and Origins
Origin of soap opera1
Word History and Origins
Origin of soap opera1
Idioms and Phrases
A radio or television serial with stock characters in domestic dramas that are noted for being sentimental and melodramatic. For example, She just watches soap operas all day long . This term originated in the mid-1930s and was so called because the sponsors of the earliest such radio shows were often soap manufacturers.
Real-life situation resembling one that might occur in a soap opera, as in She just goes on and on about her various medical and family problems, one long soap opera . [1940s]
Example Sentences
Ms Beeching says recent news has pulled the family "away from legacy-building and into soap opera territory, which was never their lane".
Murderbot is stoic but awkward and unaccustomed to human emotions, which it learns about by surreptitiously watching hours of soap operas.
It would rather watch humans on the space soap opera because that's safe.
But she got cast in a recurring role on a soap opera, and then a pilot and away she went.
Scott recalled growing up in a working-class family in Birmingham, "in a world of soap operas and things" where TV characters were mostly in heterosexual relationships or "settled down" in a nuclear family.
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