thorp

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UK/θɔːp/US/θɔɹp/

noun

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

OriginMiddle English thorp ← Old English þorp ← Proto-West Germanic *þorp →
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Meanings

thorp1

nounthorp (plural thorps)

plural thorps · alternative thorpe

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

    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
    1 more example

    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

Thorp2

proper noun
  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).

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
hamletvillage

Origin

thorp · noun

  1. Proto-Indo-European*trab-
  2. Proto-Germanic*þurpą
  3. Proto-West Germanic*þorp
  4. Old Englishþorp
  5. Middle Englishthorp
  6. Englishthorp

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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Thorp · proper noun

  1. Old Norseþorp“farm”
  2. EnglishThorp

* 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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Translations

Bulgarian селце
  • селце (selce)hamlet, village
Danish torp
  • torphamlet, village
Dutch dorp
  • dorphamlet, village
Finnish kylä
  • kylähamlet, village
French hameau, village
  • hameauhamlet, village
  • villagehamlet, village
German Dorf
  • Dorfhamlet, village
Icelandic þorp
  • þorphamlet, village
Italian villaggio, casale
  • villaggiohamlet, village
  • casalehamlet, village
Japanese 郷
  • 郷 (kyō)hamlet, village
Norwegian Bokmål torp
  • torphamlet, village
Russian селе́ние, дереву́шка
  • селе́ние (selénije)hamlet, village
  • дереву́шка (derevúška)hamlet, village
  • ху́тор (xútor)hamlet, village
Spanish aldea
  • aldeahamlet, village

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with thorp

warpthorpegorpvworp
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Anagrams

PorthProth
Cite this entry
APA

thorp. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/thorp

MLA

“thorp.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/thorp. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “thorp,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/thorp.

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