Thorp
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Definitions
- 1 A group of houses standing together in the country; a hamlet; a village. archaic
"Within a little thorp I staid."
- 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).
Example
More examples"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; […]"
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.
* As an English surname, spelling variant of Thorpe. * As a North Germanic surname, spelling variant of Torp, from a placename derived from Old Norse þorp (“farm”).
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