Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In music, above: as, come sopra, as above; nella parte di sopra, in the upper or higher part.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb (Mus.) Above; before; over; upon.

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Examples

  • Come attore epoch un po 'overacting, leggermente sopra le righe, matriarch sempre presently alla collaborazione e molto disponibile.

    Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009

  • My half-Tuesday in Rome included the requisite gallery stop and a self-guided walking tour via the Tazza d'Oro coffee bar, Pantheon, 14th-century Santa Maria sopra Minerva church and ruins of Trajan's Market.

    Around the World in Eight Days Jeff Chu 2012

  • On the morning of June 22, 1633 in the hall of the convent of Santa Maria sopra Minvera in Rome, Galileo Galilei knelt before the Lord-Cardinal Inquisitors-General and publicly abjured his false opinion that the sun was the motionless center of the universe.

    Matt J. Rossano: The Galileo Affair: Emblematic Or Exceptional? Matt J. Rossano 2011

  • The remains of the great man found a fitting resting place near the grave of St. Catherine of Siena in Santa Maria sopra Minerva.

    Cardinal Domenico Capranica (1400-1458) 2009

  • [T] he forty-part Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno ... by Alessandro Striggio languished throughout the twentieth century disguised as a nameless four-part Mass by Strusco.

    For Choral Music aficionados saintpookie 2007

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    Reid To Bush: If You Come After Us, We'll Hit Back Every Bit As Aggressively 2009

  • Questi li avevo provati anch'io tempo fa e devo dire che la ricetta funziona bene! non so come siano normalmente le ricette della Moroni leggo sopra il commento di Antonella, comunque questi sono niente male.

    Cornetti friabili allo yogurt di Anna Moroni Orchidea 2009

  • A contemporary Gigli wrote: A dė 27 di Maggio fu la festa del Corpus Domini, et si fece la Processione solennissima, nella quale e solito che il Papa e portato sopra le spalle dalli scudieri in sedia con maestā coronato, tenendo nelle mani il SS.mo Sacramento.

    A Papal Ceremony 2009

  • Jarvis, in un post fresco fresco, afferma che anche Google rischia di tradire se stesso proprio per le magagnucce sopra ...

    What should Google do? « BuzzMachine 2009

  • More than 400 years after Italian composer Alessandro Striggio wrote his extravagant 40-part Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno, it has been rediscovered by a Berkeley music scholar who identified the work and rescued it from obscurity.

    For Choral Music aficionados saintpookie 2007

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