ope

Etymology 1

noun

1. (Cornwall) alley or narrow passage e.g. Tonkin's Ope

Etymology 2

Representing oh pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end (IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /oʊp/, [oʊp̚]) (excrescent /p/). Compare yep, yup, nope, and welp. Alternatively, from Russian оп (op), shortened form of Greek όπα (ópa).

intj

1. (Midwest) an exclamation of surprise; oops
   Ope! Sorry about that.

Etymology 3

table From Middle English ope (“open”), shortened form of open, from Old English open (“open”). More at open.

adj

1. (now dialectal or poetic) Open.
   Arriving there, as did by chaunce befall, / He found the gate wyde ope […]. 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.6
   We are all weary — faint — set ope the doors — I will to bed! — To-morrow 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, act 5, scene 5, verses 191-192

verb

1. (archaic, transitive, intransitive) To open.
   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! 1842, Robert Browning, The Pied Piper of Hamelin