thorpe

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Definition of thorpe in English English dictionary

A common habitational surname

A group of houses in the country; a small village; a hamlet; a dorp

A common surname

American athlete. An outstanding collegiate football player, he later played professional football and baseball. He won the decathlon and pentathlon in the 1912 Olympics but was later disqualified because of his professional status

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

outstanding United States athlete (1888-1953)

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Jim Thorpe

in full James Francis Thorpe born May 28, 1888, near Prague, Indian Territory died March 28, 1953, Lomita, Calif., U.S. U.S. athlete. Of predominantly American Indian (Sauk and Fox) descent, he trained as a football halfback under Pop Warner while attending the Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pa. (1908-12), where he also excelled at baseball, basketball, boxing, lacrosse, swimming, and hockey. In 1912 he won the Olympic decathlon and pentathlon by wide margins, but he was deprived of his medals in 1913 after it was discovered he had played semiprofessional baseball. He later played professional baseball and football, and in 1920-21 he served as first president of what would become the National Football League. His Olympic medals were restored posthumously in 1983. Thorpe is generally regarded as the greatest American athlete of the 20th century

Turkish pronunciation

thôrp

Pronunciation

/ˈᴛʜôrp/ /ˈθɔːrp/

Etymology

[ 'thorp ] (biographical name.) From Old English þorp. Cognate to Scandinavian torp, Dutch dorp