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Webster 1913 Edition


Dorp

Dorp

,
Noun.
[LG. & D.
dorp
. See
Thorpe
.]
A hamlet.
“A mean fishing dorp.”
Howell.

Webster 1828 Edition


Dorp

DORP

,
Noun.
[G.] A small village.

Definition 2024


dorp

dorp

See also: Dörp

English

Noun

dorp (plural dorps)

  1. (now chiefly South Africa) A village or small town; a town considered provincial.
    • 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 Old Dutch *thorp, from Proto-Germanic *þurpą.

Noun

dorp (plural dorpe)

  1. town
  2. village

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɔrp

Etymology

From Old Dutch *thorp, from Proto-Germanic *þurpą.

Noun

dorp n (plural dorpen, diminutive dorpje n)

  1. village, hamlet

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