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A number that pretends to be modest but means 'behold, I worked very hard.'
means A creative work, especially a large or important one, often numbered to mark its place in a composer's or artist's output.
from From Latin 'opus,' meaning 'work' or 'labor' — the same root that gives us 'operate,' 'operation,' and 'opera' (literally 'works,' plural). Composers started slapping 'Opus 1,' 'Opus 2,' and so on onto their pieces to catalog output, turning a humble Latin word for 'toil' into shorthand for 'this is my serious, numbered-for-posterity work.'
- literal meaning
- latin for work, plain and simple
- numbering flex
- opus 1 signals a composer's grand debut
- magnum opus
- the phrase basically means your best flex
- posthumous ones
- opus numbers sometimes assigned after death, awkwardly