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dorp

American  
[dawrp] / dɔrp /

noun

  1. a village; hamlet.


dorp British  
/ dɔːp /

noun

  1. archaic a small town or village

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of dorp

First recorded in 1560–70; from Dutch; cognate with thorp


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From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2012

I took on a case in the litde dorp of Villiers in the Orange Free State.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Alamachtig! who knows what he has not got—that Engelsch Commandant—both in the dorp and hidden in those thrice-accursed mines that he has laid on the veld about her.

From The Dop Doctor by Richard Dehan

The arrival at the little railhead dorp of Winburg was remarkable.

From With Botha in the Field by Eric Moore Ritchie

We were married forthwith, of course—no later than the next day,—and the day after that I rode with my man to the plot beside the dorp spruit to see our home that had to be.

From Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories by Perceval Gibbon

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