ope

[ohp]

adjective, verb (used with or without object), oped, op·ing. Literary.

open.

Examples from the Web for ope

Contemporary Examples of ope

A spokesman affirmed: “This meeting, like most OPE meetings, is closed to press and off the record.”
White House's Transgender Meeting
Nancy Goldstein
April 30, 2011

Historical Examples of ope

You 've often told me I treat you badly—well I 'ope you 'll be glad when I 'm gone.
The Silver Box (First Series Plays)
John Galsworthy
I 'ope you'll excuse the liberty, but I did laugh, and I won't say but I shed a few tears too.
The Christian
Hall Caine
There is such a thing, sir, I 'ope, as Libbaty of Conscience.
Two Sides of the Face
Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
You were born for a mansion, an' I 'ope you'll always 'ave one to live in.'
Sarah's School Friend
May Baldwin
Yet how can I ope the door to you—at night—he not at home—I alone?
The Phantom Ship
Frederick Marryat

British Dictionary definitions for ope

ope

verb, adjective

an archaic or poetic word for open

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Word Origin and History for ope

adj.

short for open (adj.), early 13c. "not closed; not hidden;" originally as awake is from awaken, etc. As a verb from mid-15c. Middle English had ope-head "bare-headed" (c.1300).