dorp
See also: Dörp
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch dorp, which see for more. Doublet of dorf and thorp, and possibly also of troop and troupe.
Noun
dorp (plural dorps)
- (now chiefly South Africa) A village or small town; a town considered provincial.
- 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 8:
- Omnium rerum viciſſitudo eſt, ones falling, is anothers riſing, and ſo fell it out with that ruind Dorpe or hamlet, which after it had relapſt into the Lordes handes for want of reparations, and there were not men enough in it to defend the ſhore from inuaſion, one Cerdicus a Plaſhing Saxon, that had reueld here and there with his battleaxe, on the bordring bankes of the decrepite ouerworne village now ſurnamed Gorleſtone threw forth his anchor, and with the aſſiſtance of his ſpeare, in ſtead of a pikeſtaffe, leapt agroũd like a ſturdie bruite, and his yeomen bolde caſt their heeles in their necke, and friſkt it after him, […]
- 1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther 1974, p. 51:
- ‘You can't hang about this dorp doing nothing.’
- 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 186:
- I took on a case in the little dorp of Villiers in the Orange Free State.
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Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch dorp, from Middle Dutch dorp, from Old Dutch *thorp, from Proto-Germanic *þurpą.
Pronunciation
Noun
dorp (plural dorpe, diminutive dorpie)
Descendants
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch dorp, from Old Dutch thorp, from Proto-West Germanic *þorp, from Proto-Germanic *þurpą. Doublet of terp.
Pronunciation
Noun
dorp n (plural dorpen, diminutive dorpje n)
Hyponyms
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Derived terms
- general:
- toponyms:
- Aadorp
- Aagtdorp
- Adorp
- Agodorp
- Alendorp
- Arendsdorp
- Assendorp
- Avendorp
- Baarsdorp
- Badhoevedorp
- Batadorp
- Beekdorp
- Beinsdorp
- Betondorp
- Bijdorp
- Blijdorp
- Boschdorp
- Bregtdorp
- Brijdorpe
- Burgemeester Beinsdorp
- Ceresdorp
- Darp
- De Cocksdorp
- Derp
- Dorp
- Drents Dorp
- Driedorp
- Duindorp
- Elsendorp
- Emmadorp
- Hanendorp
- Hazerswoude-Dorp
- Hekendorp
- Het Dorp
- Heveadorp
- Hoofddorp
- Hoogdorp
- Houtdorp
- Julianadorp
- Kerkdorp
- Kleindorp
- Knikkerdorp
- Knutteldorp
- Langdorp
- Lauradorp
- Leiderdorp
- Lelydorp
- Lewedorp
- Losdorp
- Maredorp
- Middendorp
- Nieuwdorp
- Nieuwe Niedorp
- Nootdorp
- Numansdorp
- Oostdorp
- Oostendorp
- Opdorp
- Oranjedorp
- Oud Osdorp
- Ouddorp
- Oude Niedorp
- Oudorp
- Ouwendorp
- Papendorp
- Philipsdorp
- Ransdorp
- Rode Dorp
- Rumsdorp
- Sint Aagtendorp
- Slootdorp
- Sportdorp
- Steendorp
- Tuindorp
- Voordorp
- Westdorp
- Westdorpe
- Westendorp
- Wilhelminadorp
- Willemsdorp
- Woldendorp
- Zuiddorpe
- Zunderdorp
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