Definitions for Thorpe

Thorpe Thorpe

Spelling: [thawrp]
IPA: /θɔrp/

Thorpe is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 133 anagrams from letters in Thorpe (ehoprt).

Definitions for Thorpe

noun

  1. James Francis ("Jim") 1888–1953, U.S. track-and-field athlete and football and baseball player.
  2. a hamlet; village.

Origin of Thorpe

before 900; Middle English, Old English; cognate with German Dorf, Old Norse thorp village, Gothic thaurp field

Examples for Thorpe

Pre-doping, pre-systematic training, pre-everything—Thorpe is still right up there in the Olympic Pantheon.

Thorpe was acquitted of all wrongdoing, and here is what Waugh had to say about that acquittal in the introduction to his book.

"Oh, it'll mount up to considerable, as it stands," said Thorpe.

There were no official collegiate records in 1912, only newspaper accounts and they are missing for two games Thorpe played in.

Records for many of the so-called Poverty Row western serials Thorpe appeared in are lost.

"Oh, hardly a 'few years'; more like fifteen," Thorpe corrected him.

Thorpe hesitated, and knitted his brows in the effort to remember names.

Thorpe hailed him, with a peremptory tone, and gave the brusque order, "Strand!"

Thorpe took a chair, and the two men exchanged a silent, intent look.

Thorpe, who died in 1999 at the age of 62, wrote several crime novels.

Word Value for Thorpe
Scrable

11

Words with friends

11

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