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☆ space opera

Informal a highly melodramatic science-fiction novel, film, etc. about adventures in space travel

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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