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Oprah

/ˈəʊpɹə/

Oprah proper noun: a female given name from Hebrew, of modern usage, variant of Orpah.

Proper noun

Oprah

  1. A female given name from Hebrew, of modern usage, variant of Orpah.
  2. (colloquial) The Oprah Winfrey Show, a popular long-running U.S. television talk show (1986–2011).
    • He was on Oprah recently to talk about his new book.

Verb

Oprah (third-person singular simple present Oprahs, present participle Oprahing, simple past and past participle Oprahed or Oprah'd)

  1. (informal, uncommon) To feature on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
    • Suddenly it seemed as if [Cormac] McCarthy was the most famous writer in America: profiled, reappraised, gossiped about, Oprah'd, but, most importantly, read.2008 January 12, Jason Cowley, “A shot rang out …”, in The Guardian
    • [Jonathan Franzen] had expressed to various people his anxiety about being “Oprah-ed” (my word, not his). He was uneasy about being linked indiscriminately to other novelists she had anointed but whose work he did not respect, and she got wind of his discontent.2015, Philip Weinstein, Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of Rage, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN

Forms of Oprah

third-person singular presentOprahs
present participleOprahing
past participleOprahed
pastOprahed
past participleOprah'd
pastOprah'd

Origin of Oprah

From Oprah Winfrey, a very influential talk show host, originally named Orpah after the Biblical figure, via metathesis.

Words formed from Oprah

Questions about Oprah

What does Oprah mean?
Oprah means a female given name from Hebrew, of modern usage, variant of Orpah.
What part of speech is Oprah?
Oprah can be a proper noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce Oprah?
Oprah is pronounced /ˈəʊpɹə/.

Words near Oprah in the dictionary

  1. oppy
  2. oppy.
  3. OPQRST
  4. opr.
  5. OPRAF
  6. Oprah
  7. Oprah effect
  8. Oprah'd
  9. Oprahed
  10. Oprahesque
  11. Oprahfication

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Oprah (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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