"opara" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Borrowing from Igbo",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "opara",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "opara"
      },
      "expansion": "opara (plural opara)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Nigerian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Male family members",
          "orig": "en:Male family members",
          "parents": [
            "Family members",
            "Male people",
            "Family",
            "Male",
            "People",
            "Gender",
            "Human",
            "Biology",
            "Psychology",
            "Sociology",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Social sciences",
            "Fundamental",
            "Society"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1980, Umoja - Volume 4, Issue 3, page 23:",
          "text": "Since the opara was the rightful successor to his father, and more or less inherited his father's political and religious functions upon his death, sending him to school, where he became ipso facto a Christian convert, meant that when his ...",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, John E. Eberegbulam Njoku, Short Stories of the Traditional People of Nigeria, →ISBN:",
          "text": "He summoned all the opara (the first sons) of each family in the clan.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, I Do Not Come to You by Chance, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Many mothers would give an arm and a leg to have an opara like me.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The oldest son, who has inherited the rights and responsibilities of his father after his father has died."
      ],
      "id": "en-opara-en-noun-9~uG-Ke5",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Nigeria) The oldest son, who has inherited the rights and responsibilities of his father after his father has died."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Nigeria"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "opara"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Borrowing from Igbo",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "opara",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "opara"
      },
      "expansion": "opara (plural opara)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English indeclinable nouns",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns with irregular plurals",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Nigerian English",
        "Pages with 2 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Male family members"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1980, Umoja - Volume 4, Issue 3, page 23:",
          "text": "Since the opara was the rightful successor to his father, and more or less inherited his father's political and religious functions upon his death, sending him to school, where he became ipso facto a Christian convert, meant that when his ...",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, John E. Eberegbulam Njoku, Short Stories of the Traditional People of Nigeria, →ISBN:",
          "text": "He summoned all the opara (the first sons) of each family in the clan.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, I Do Not Come to You by Chance, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Many mothers would give an arm and a leg to have an opara like me.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The oldest son, who has inherited the rights and responsibilities of his father after his father has died."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Nigeria) The oldest son, who has inherited the rights and responsibilities of his father after his father has died."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Nigeria"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "opara"
}