dorp
/dɔː(ɹ)p/
dorp noun: a village or small town; a town considered provincial.
Noun
dorp (plural dorps)
- A village or small town; a town considered provincial.
- 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...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
- When the aforesaid alderman or another wishes to express mild contemptuosity for his fellows and himself in future I would suggest “old fossils” or “old has beens,” or “old fogies,” then the Sir Galahads that are always riding—or driving—about in this progressive dorp will not have any cause to...1927 November 25, J. Jingle, “Merely My Musings”, in The Dabbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate, page 2, column 3
dorp meaning in Tamil
dorp in Tamil
- குறு சிற்றூர்
Examples of dorp in a sentence
- ‘You can't hang about this dorp doing nothing.’1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther, published 1974, page 51:
- I took on a case in the little dorp of Villiers in the Orange Free State.1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 186:
Forms of dorp
| plural | dorps |
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Origin of dorp
Borrowed from Dutch dorp, which see for more. Doublet of dorf and thorp, and possibly also of troop and troupe.
Words formed from dorp
Questions about dorp
- What does dorp mean?
- Dorp means a village or small town; a town considered provincial.
- What is dorp in Tamil?
- Dorp in Tamil is குறு சிற்றூர். See Dorp meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use dorp in a sentence?
- ‘You can't hang about this dorp doing nothing.’
- What part of speech is dorp?
- Dorp is a noun.
- How do you pronounce dorp?
- Dorp is pronounced /dɔː(ɹ)p/.
- What is the plural of dorp?
- The plural of dorp is dorps.
Words near dorp in the dictionary
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