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thorp

noun
/θɔːp/UK/θɔɹp/US

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.

  1. derived from *trab-✻
  2. inherited from *þurpą✻
  3. inherited from *þorp✻
  4. inherited from þorp
  5. inherited from thorp

Definitions

  1. A group of houses standing together in the country

    A group of houses standing together in the country; a hamlet; a village.

    • Within a little thorp I staid.
    • 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; […]

  2. A surname.

  3. A ghost town in South Branch Township, Wexford County, Michigan, United States.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. A census-designated place in Kittitas County, Washington, United States.

    2. A city and town in Clark County, Wisconsin, United States.

    3. A suburb of Royton, Oldham borough, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD9108).

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA