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thorp en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /θɔɹp/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /θɔːp/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From Middle English thorp, throp, from Old English þorp, þrop (“farm, village”), from Proto-West Germanic *þorp, from Proto-Germanic *þurpą, *þrepą (“village, farmstead, troop”), from Proto-Indo-European *trab-, *treb- (“dwelling, room”). Doublet of dorf and dorp, and possibly also of troop and troupe.

Meanings

1. (archaic, in placenames) A group of houses standing together in the country; a hamlet; a village.
   • A plague upon the people fell, / A famine after laid them low, / Then thorpe and byre arose in fire, / For on them brake the sudden foe; […] 1870, Alfred Tennyson, “The Victim”, in The Holy Grail and Other Poems, London: Strahan and Co., […], →OCLC, stanza I, page 193:
   • Within a little thorp I staid. 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “(please specify |book=1 to 20)”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC:

Forms

Relateds

Thorpe

Translations (26)

gmw-cfr Dörp (hamlet, village) · fr hameau (hamlet, village) · ru дереву́шка (hamlet, village) · fo torpur (hamlet, village) · bar Duaf (hamlet, village) · es aldea (hamlet, village) · nl dorp (hamlet, village) · nds-de Dörp (hamlet, village) · ru селе́ние (hamlet, village) · fr village (hamlet, village) · non þorp (hamlet, village) · it casale (hamlet, village) · nn torp (hamlet, village) · de Dorf (hamlet, village) · fy doarp (hamlet, village) · ru ху́тор (hamlet, village) · gsw Toorf (hamlet, village) · nb torp (hamlet, village) · nds-de Duorp (hamlet, village) · ja 郷 (hamlet, village) · fi kylä (hamlet, village) · da torp (hamlet, village) · it villaggio (hamlet, village) · stq Täärp (hamlet, village) · is þorp (hamlet, village) · bg селце (hamlet, village)