dorp

A village or small town; a town considered provincial.

Noun

  1. 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...
    • 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...
    • ‘You can't hang about this dorp doing nothing.’ - 1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther, published 1974, page 51:

Origin

Borrowed from Dutch dorp, which see for more. Doublet of dorf and thorp, and possibly also of troop and troupe.

Forms

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