How did "Soap Opera" get its name?

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I believe that he soap part came from the "soap" commercials shown during episodes correct? But the opera part has me stumped!

How did "Soap Opera" get its name?windows xp service

Probably the opera part came from:

The word opera means "works" in Italian (from the plural of Latin opus meaning "work" or "labour") suggesting that it combines the arts of solo and choral singing, declamation, acting and dancing in a staged spectacle.

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The expression soap opera refers to a radio or television series depicting the interconnected lives of many characters often in a sentimental, melodramatic way. It is also used figuratively to refer to a real-life situation that resembles the stories on soap operas, and to anything having sentimentality or melodrama.

A soap opera is so called for the less-than-thrilling reason that soap manufacturers were prominent initial sponsors of such programs. Opera was already in use in weakened senses like this: horse opera was a popular 1920s term for a Western film or radio/TV show, and oat(s) opera was in use by the mid-1930s.

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How did "Soap Opera" get its name?

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