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Dorp
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Dorp
DORP
,Noun.
Definition 2024
dorp
dorp
See also: Dörp
English
Noun
dorp (plural dorps)
- (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.
- 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 186:
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Etymology
From Dutch dorp, from Old Dutch *thorp, from Proto-Germanic *þurpą.
Noun
dorp (plural dorpe)