ope
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /əʊp/
Interjection
  1. (Midwest) an exclamation of surprise; oops
    Ope! Sorry about that.
Interjection
  1. (Midwest) an exclamation of surprise; oops
    Ope! Sorry about that.
Adjective

ope

  1. (now dialectal or poetic) Open. [from 13th c.]
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.6:
      Arriving there, as did by chaunce befall, / He found the gate wyde ope […].
    • 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act V, Scene V, verses 191-192:
      We are all weary — faint — set ope the doors —
      I will to bed! — To-morrow —
    • On Sunday heaven's gate stands ope.
Verb

ope (opes, present participle oping; past and past participle oped)

  1. (archaic, ambitransitive) To open.
    • 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III Scene 2
      Ere I ope his letter, / I pray you, tell me how my good friend doth.
    • 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I, scene 2 :
      The hour's now come, the very minute bids thee ope thine ear; obey and be attentive.
    • , Robert Browning, The Pied Piper of Hamelin
      There came into many a burgher's pate / A text which says that heaven's gate / Opes to the rich at as easy rate / As the needle's eye takes a camel in!



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