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thorp

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Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
10
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/θɔːp/
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/θɔːp/ · /θɔɹp/

Definition of thorp

6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (archaic)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; […]”
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noun

  1. (archaic)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; […]”

name

  1. A surname.
  2. A ghost town in South Branch Township, Wexford County, Michigan, United States.
  3. A census-designated place in Kittitas County, Washington, United States.
  4. A city and town in Clark County, Wisconsin, United States.
  5. A suburb of Royton, Oldham borough, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD9108).

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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.

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