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opa

opa noun: grandfather, grandpa.

Noun (1)

opa (plural opas)

  1. (among people of German-speaking ancestry) Grandfather, grandpa.
    • We love to eat: Opa's apple cake […] My opa (grandfather) had a long and beautifully kept allotment in the north German town of Flensburg.2012 July 13, Clare Hansen, “Family life”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Jun 2015
    • I intuited that somehow I’d always been, yet, clearly, there was time — a considerable time — when I was not. So, where was I? I didn’t have an opa to ask.2016 September 20, Jim Carnett, “Pondering the eternal with my grandson”, in Daily Pilot, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Sep 2025

Noun (2) capitalized: OPA

OPA (countable and uncountable, plural OPAs)

  1. (abbreviation, countable) Abbreviation of optionally piloted aircraft.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of offensive patent aggregation.

Examples of opa in a sentence

  • He retold it to me at my opa’s funeral, about half a century after the game.2020, Alexander Starritt, We Germans, London: John Murray (Publishers), →ISBN:
  • My children have an oma and an OPA, so I knew that I could put in the O and the A.2020 September 1, Deb Amlen, “Sales Spiel in 60 Seconds or Less”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN...
  • My opa grew up poor in Vienna and then got a scholarship to a prestigious Jewish high school.2022 September 14, Jessica Grose, “What School Anxiety Dreams Teach Us About Ourselves”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New...

Forms of opa

pluralopas
pluralOPAs

Origin of opa

Borrowed from German Opa.

Phrases with opa

Questions about opa

What does opa mean?
Opa means grandfather, grandpa.
How do you use opa in a sentence?
He retold it to me at my opa’s funeral, about half a century after the game.
What part of speech is opa?
Opa is a noun.
What is the plural of opa?
The plural of opa is opas.

Words near opa in the dictionary

  1. op-edding
  2. op-eds
  3. op-shop
  4. op-shops
  5. op.
  6. opa
  7. Opa Locka
  8. Opa-Locka
  9. opabiniid
  10. opabiniids
  11. OPAC

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Adapted from Wiktionary: opa (page history and authors); OPA (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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