OPUS in a Sentence

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1. Although many critics hailed his Fifth Symphony as his major work, he did not regard it as his major opus.

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opus
 n.  creative work, as literary or musical composition
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1  Although many critics hailed his Fifth Symphony as his major work, he did not regard it as his major opus.
2  So concluded the historian Arnold Toynbee in his 12-volume magnum opus A Study of History, which was an exploration of the rise and fall of 28 different civilizations.