opryn.
/ˈɒpri/, U.S. /ˈɑprɪ/ U.S.
1. colloquial. = opera n.1 Frequently attributive, esp. in opry-house.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > opera > [noun]
opera1648
opry1862
1862 C. F. Browne Artemus Ward his Bk. 131 Jest then Signer Maccarony cum out and sung a hairey from sum opry or other.
1871 ‘M. Twain’ Screamers xxviii. 144 They're playing ‘Undine’ at the Opery House, and some folks call it the leg shop.
1889 C. H. Flemming Our Country Cousin (MS) i. i. 2 By ther 4th o' July they'll be able ter sing as good as that company of ‘oprey troopers’ that played in ole Kit Suratnamo big barn last week!
1914 R. Grau Theatre of Sci. 23 The local manager could not see any future in exhibiting films, so he went back to the town where he had his ‘op'ry house’.
1961 A. Berkman Singers' Gloss. Show Business Jargon 64 Opry,..opera.
1986 T. Fishlock State of Amer. iii. 71 In the old west..the opry-house followed hard on the whorehouse.
2. In full Grand Ole Opry. A regular concert of country music broadcast from c1940 as a radio (and subsequently as a television) programme, from Nashville, Tennessee; the venue where this concert is held; the type of music characteristic of this programme.Grand Ole Opry is a proprietary name.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > a performance > [noun] > concert > types of
Philharmonic concert1740
benefit-concert1759
chamber concert1760
recital1762
Dutch concert1774
concert performance1777
philharmonica1796
musical soirée1821
sacred concert1832
soirée musicale1836
promenade concert1839
pianoforte recital1840
ballad concert1855
piano recital1855
Monday pop1862
Pop1862
promenade1864
popular1865
Schubertiad1869
recitative1873
organ recital1877
pop concert1880
smoker1887
smoke concert1888
café concert1891
prom1902
smoke-ho1918
smoking-concert1934
hootenanny1940
opry1940
Liederabend1958
1940 N.Y. Times 14 Jan. x7/4 Although the ‘Grand Ole Opry’ doesn't begin until 8 o'clock, by early evening people are already entering the town by foot, by horse, by cars and trucks.
1950 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 18 Apr. 723/1 WSM, Incorporated, Nashville, Tenn. Grand Ole Opry. For radio program broadcasting services.
1957 Time 15 Apr. 49/1 Donegan..often..sounds like Grand Ole Opry cornball recorded at 33⅓ r.p.m. played at 78.
1968 Rolling Stone 24 Aug. 17/3 Roy Acuff tried unsuccessfully to give the audience a taste of Grand Ole Opry. He was too corny for most people's taste.
1976 Time 27 Sept. 98/1 For the mass market, cruder Southern products flooded the land: hillbilly music, gospel music, the Grand Ole Opry.
1989 C. R. Wilson & W. Ferris Encycl. Southern Culture 1060/2 The Opry remains country music's most enduring institution.
2003 Rolling Stone 11 Dec. 152/6 Over guitars that owe more to the Stones than to the Opry, she uses country to tell a story about the rootlessness of American life.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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