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sortita

sortita noun: the air sung by any of the principal characters in an opera on entering.

Noun

sortita

  1. The air sung by any of the principal characters in an opera on entering.
  2. A closing voluntary; a postlude.

Origin of sortita

From Italian sortita. Doublet of sortie.

Questions about sortita

What does sortita mean?
Sortita means the air sung by any of the principal characters in an opera on entering.
What part of speech is sortita?
Sortita is a noun.

Words near sortita in the dictionary

  1. sorting the wheat from the chaff
  2. sorting through
  3. sortings
  4. Sortino
  5. Sortinos
  6. sortita
  7. sortition
  8. sortitioned
  9. sortitions
  10. sortitive
  11. sortkey

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