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oga

UK/ˈəʊ.ɡə/US/ˈoʊ.ɡə/

oga noun: a chief, employer, or superior.

Noun

oga (plural ogas)

  1. (Africa, West) A chief, employer, or superior.
    • Nigeria is not a nation of sandwich-eating people and his last oga did not eat bread in the afternoon.2013, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, chapter 50, in Americanah

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Oga

Oga

  1. A frazione in Valdisotto, Sondrio, Lombardy, Italy.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Oga

Oga

  1. A peninsula in Akita Prefecture, Honshu, Japan, projecting into the Sea of Japan; in full, Oga Peninsula.
  2. A city in Oga Peninsula, Akita Prefecture, Honshu, Japan; in full, Oga City.
  3. (abbreviation, ellipsis) Ellipsis of Oga Quasi-National Park: a park in Oga City, Oga Peninsula, Akita Prefecture, Honshu, Japan.

Proper noun (3) capitalized: OGA

OGA

  1. (abbreviation, euphemistic, initialism) Initialism of other government agency.

Forms of oga

pluralogas

Origin of oga

Borrowed from Yoruba ọ̀gá (“chief, master”).

From Italian Oga.

From Japanese 男鹿 (Oga).

Words that rhyme with oga

Questions about oga

What does oga mean?
Oga means a chief, employer, or superior.
What part of speech is oga?
Oga can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce oga?
Oga is pronounced /ˈəʊ.ɡə/ (UK).
What is the plural of oga?
The plural of oga is ogas.

Words near oga in the dictionary

  1. OFWs
  2. oFZD
  3. oFZDs
  4. oFZS
  5. og
  6. oga
  7. ogac
  8. Ogaden
  9. Ogadenia
  10. ogaire
  11. ogaires

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Adapted from Wiktionary: oga (page history and authors); Oga (page history and authors); OGA (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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