Definition of "operagoers" [operagoers]

• Plural form of operagoer. (noun)

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• "The average age of Met operagoers has fallen by two years, to 58 from 60, since 2006, General Manager Peter Gelb said Wednesday while announcing details of the company's 2011-12 season."
• "Because his plays are so well known that most educated operagoers are not only familiar with their plots but can quote much of the dialogue from memory."
• "But yesterday in the New York Times, Alex Ross, the New Yorker's music critic, made the point that, operagoers are, in fact, a motley middle-class lot."