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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun thorpe has 1 sense
- thorpe(n = noun.person) james francis thorpe, jim thorpe - outstanding United States athlete (1888-1953); Array is a kind of athlete, jock
CIDE DICTIONARY
thorpe, n. [AS. ; akin to OS. & OFries. thorp, D. dorp, G. dorf, Icel. , Dan. torp, Sw. torp a cottage, a little farm, Goth. a field, and probably to Lith. troba a building, a house, W. tref a hamlet, Ir. treabh a farmed village, a tribe, clan, Gael. treabhair houses, and perhaps to L. turba a crowd, mult. Cf. Dorp.].
A group of houses in the country; a small village; a hamlet; a dorp; -- now chiefly occurring in names of places and persons; as, Althorp, Mablethorpe. Fairfax. [1913 Webster]
"Then thorpe and byre arose in fire."
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