/θɔːp/, /θɔɹp/
OriginFrom Middle English thorp, throp, from Old English þorp, þrop (“farm, village”), from Proto-West Germanic *þorp, from Proto-Germanic *þurpą, *þrepą (“village, farmstead, troop”), from Proto-Indo-European *trab-, *treb- (“dwelling, room”). Doublet of dorf and dorp, and possibly also of troop and troupe.
- archaicA group of houses standing together in the country; a hamlet; a village.
“Within a little thorp I staid.”
“A plague upon the people fell, / A famine after laid them low, / Then thorpe and byre arose in fire, / For on them brake the sudden foe; […]”
- A surname.
- A ghost town in South Branch Township, Wexford County, Michigan, United States.
- A census-designated place in Kittitas County, Washington, United States.
- A city and town in Clark County, Wisconsin, United States.
- A suburb of Royton, Oldham borough, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD9108).
Formsthorps(plural) · thorpe(alternative)