opa

Noun

1. 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...
   • 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...
   • That story of him playing football on his crutches I’ve heard from at least four people: my grandparents, my mum and one of the other boys, who’s since become a mildly creepy evangelical Christian. He retold it to me at...

   Coordinate Terms: oma