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ocha

ocha noun: japanese tea, usually green tea.

Noun

ocha (uncountable)

  1. Japanese tea, usually green tea.
    • Right now I am drinking ocha and listening to the rain whipping across the windowpanes.2001, Franz Wiegand, chapter VI, in Tokyo Blues: Shikata Ga Nai! (It Can’t Be Helped!), Lincoln, Neb.: Writer’s Showcase, →ISBN, page 63
    • In the winters, they would sit together in the tiny attic space that the old man had been occupying in the house for the past 25 years and drink hot ocha as Rakesh-7 wove together seemingly simple threads into complex and detailed narrations […]2008 December, Ashim Shanker, chapter II, in Don’t Forget to Breathe (Migrations; 1), 2nd edition, [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu, →ISBN, page 10

Proper noun (1) capitalized: OCHA

OCHA

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Ocha

Ocha

  1. Former name of Euboea.

Examples of ocha in a sentence

  • Before each she quickly dispatched a bowl of miso soup, a small but steaming cup of ocha (green tea), some sushimi (raw fish), sukiyaki, boiled rice, octopus, udon noodles and some eel and sushi.2017 April 6, John Hunter Parker, “Adventures in The Land of The Rising Sun”, in The Colored Boys: Inspired by True Events, [Bloomington...
  • In this way, we honor the tea plant and the labor of the many hands that create a single cup of ocha.2023, Erin Masako Wilkins, “Tea (Ocha)”, in Asian American Herbalism: Traditional and Modern Healing Practices for Everyday Wellness—[…]...

Origin of ocha

From Japanese お茶 (ocha), from 御 (o-, honorific prefix) + 茶 (cha, “tea”), from Middle Chinese 茶 (MC drae), whence English cha.

Questions about ocha

What does ocha mean?
Ocha means japanese tea, usually green tea.
How do you use ocha in a sentence?
Before each she quickly dispatched a bowl of miso soup, a small but steaming cup of ocha (green tea), some sushimi (raw fish), sukiyaki, boiled rice, octopus, udon noodles and some eel and sushi.
What part of speech is ocha?
Ocha can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near ocha in the dictionary

  1. OCG
  2. OCGs
  3. och
  4. och aye
  5. och aye the noo
  6. ocha
  7. Ochakiv
  8. ochanee
  9. ochava
  10. ochavo
  11. ochavos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ocha (page history and authors); OCHA (page history and authors); Ocha (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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