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arias

[ahr-ee-uh, air-ee-uh] Origin

a·ri·a

[ahr-ee-uh, air-ee-uh]
noun
1.
an air or melody.
2.
an elaborate melody sung solo with accompaniment, as in an opera or oratorio.

Origin:
1735–45; < Italian; see air1

area, aria.

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Arias is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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A·ri·a

[ahr-ee-uh, uh-rahy-uh]
noun Classical Mythology.
a nymph, the mother of Miletus, by Apollo.
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aria
from It., lit. "air."
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aria [(ahr-ee-uh)]

A piece of music for one voice (or occasionally two voices) in an opera, oratorio, or cantata. In contrast with recitative singing, arias are melodious; in contrast with ordinary songs, arias are usually elaborate.

Note: Some composers, such as Richard Wagner, have felt that arias interrupt the action of opera too much and hence have written operas without them.
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