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Beijing opera

Beijing opera noun: synonym of Peking opera.

Noun

Beijing opera (countable and uncountable, plural Beijing operas)

  1. Synonym of Peking opera.
    Synonyms:
    Peking opera

Synonyms of Beijing opera

Forms of Beijing opera

pluralBeijing operas

Origin of Beijing opera

From Beijing + opera, following the growing acceptance of pinyin Beijing in place of the earlier spelling Peking in reference to the capital of China.

Questions about Beijing opera

What does Beijing opera mean?
Beijing opera means synonym of Peking opera.
What part of speech is Beijing opera?
Beijing opera is a noun.
What is the plural of Beijing opera?
The plural of Beijing opera is Beijing operas.

Words near Beijing opera in the dictionary

  1. Beijing
  2. Beijing Biden
  3. Beijing bikini
  4. Beijing bikinis
  5. Beijing duck
  6. Beijing opera
  7. Beijing operas
  8. Beijing Time
  9. Beijinger
  10. Beijingers
  11. Beijingese

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Beijing opera (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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