oda

American

[oh-duh, oh-dah] / ˈoʊ də, oʊˈdɑ /

Or odah

noun

a room within a harem.

ODA British

abbreviation

Overseas Development Administration, now superseded by the Department for International Development (DFID)

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Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

noun

Etymology

Origin of oda

First recorded in 1615–25; from Turkish: “room”

Example Sentences

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E se non ho chi m' oda, parlo d'amor con me.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes

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