Noun: dorf
Sample Sentences
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This dorf contained some forty dwellings. [1845, Jeptha Root Simms, History of Schoharie County and Border Wars of New York: […] , Albany: Munsell & Tanner, printers, page 48:]
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So, all things considered, we were not very cheerful at first; but when the mist got higher and the day got brighter, and particularly after we left the first little dorf. [1853, Thomas Carlyle, Fraser's Magazine, page 280:]
Nouns inflected like dorf
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
In some cases from German Dorf and in others from the cognate Yiddish דאָרף (dorf). Doublet of dorp and thorp. See: German Nouns '
Dorf'.