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dorps

dorps is the plural of dorp.

Meaning of dorp

Noun

dorp (plural dorps)

  1. (South Africa) 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

Questions about dorps

What is dorps the plural of?
Dorps is the plural of dorp.

Words near dorps in the dictionary

  1. Dorpers
  2. Dorpian
  3. Dorpians
  4. dorpie
  5. dorpies
  6. dorps
  7. dorr
  8. Dorrah
  9. Dorrance
  10. Dorrances
  11. Dorrell

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