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Definition of 'magnum opus'

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magnum opus

singular noun [oft poss NOUN]
A magnum opus is the greatest or most important work produced by a writer, artist, musician, or academic.
...Gadamer's magnum opus 'Truth and Method'.
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magnum opus in British

noun
a great work of art or literature, esp the greatest single work of an artist
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Word origin of 'magnum opus'
Latin
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magnum opus in American

(ˌmægnəm ˈoʊpəs )
1. 
a great work, esp. of art or literature; masterpiece
2. 
a person's greatest work or undertaking
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The 800 million project was to have been his magnum opus. Times, Sunday Times (2014)It's the week of the magnum opus. Times, Sunday Times (2013)Do they mean magnum opus? Times, Sunday Times (2015)Perhaps her magnum opus must be Men at Work. Times, Sunday Times (2015)In his early magnum opus Being and Time the name he gave to the space in which such multiple possibilities unfold was existence. Wood, David Philosophy at the Limit (1990)

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