Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

opals

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.34 in modern English

Syllables: opals
IPA

7

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

name

The women's national basketball representative team of Australia.

Australian usage

Example Sentences

"Carrie Graf knows about coaching creative individual players, as she has coached women′s basketball superstar Lauren Jackson, who shot to fame as a 15-year-old and joined the Australian women′s Opals basketball team by 16."
"This, combined with a sycophantic basketball press in Australia, created a weight of expectation that was slowly crushing the young player. Four months before the Olympics, Opals coach Maher lamented that he was having ‘a few too many’ talks with her on how to cope."
"She′d made the train on squad for the Australian Opals basketball team and also played rugby for the Sydney University woman′s team."

Etymology

From opal, a gemstone mined in Australia.

Usage

Australian usage

Questions

What does opals mean?: plural of opal
Where does opals come from?: From opal, a gemstone mined in Australia.

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