Other forms: arias
An aria is a song for one voice in an opera. Sing an aria, a famous aria, the soprano's aria.
It is where the action stops and the feeling is examined, which is the opposite of recitative, the sung speech that carries the plot along between them. The famous tunes people know from opera are nearly all arias.
1nounariaA song for one voice in an opera.
“The soprano's final aria brought the whole audience to its feet.”
aria is a song.
Italian aria means air, from Latin aer. English air, meaning a tune, is the same word by another road.
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Borrowed from Italian aria. From Italian aria, metathesis from Latin āerem, accusative of āēr, from Ancient Greek ἀήρ (“air”). a doublet of air.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA