Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A small town.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A small village.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A hamlet.

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  • noun A village or small town; a town considered provincial.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Afrikaans, from Middle Dutch; see treb- in Indo-European roots.]

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From Dutch dorp.

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  • A (Dutch) village; in South Africa, a small town. (Cf. thorp.)

    August 6, 2008

  • '...his ministry was here, here in the wilderness of conscience; this sodden dorp and river midden where he preached each week from a teepee...'

    - Gass, Omensetter's Luck

    March 24, 2013