THORPE

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• THORPE (noun)
  The noun THORPE has 1 sense:

1. outstanding United States athlete (1888-1953)

  Familiarity information: THORPE used as a noun is very rare.

• THORPE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Outstanding United States athlete (1888-1953)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

James Francis Thorpe; Jim Thorpe; Thorpe

Instance hypernyms:

athlete; jock (a person trained to compete in sports)

 Context examples 

“That’s Riding Thorpe Manor,” said he.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Here come my dear girls,” cried Mrs. Thorpe, pointing at three smart-looking females who, arm in arm, were then moving towards her.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Fast spread the tidings from thorpe to thorpe and from castle to castle, that the old game was afoot once more, and the lions and lilies to be in the field with the early spring.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

From the Thorpes she could learn nothing, for they had been only two days in Bath before they met with Mrs. Allen.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

“We are going to Riding Thorpe Manor,” said he, “but we have heard nothing of what has passed there.”

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Catherine was delighted with this extension of her Bath acquaintance, and almost forgot Mr. Tilney while she talked to Miss Thorpe.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

That is what Mr. Hilton Cubitt, of Riding Thorpe Manor, Norfolk, is very anxious to know.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Miss Thorpes were introduced; and Miss Morland, who had been for a short time forgotten, was introduced likewise.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Would that I had some brighter ending to communicate to my readers, but these are the chronicles of fact, and I must follow to their dark crisis the strange chain of events which for some days made Riding Thorpe Manor a household word through the length and breadth of England.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

John Thorpe kept of course with Catherine, and, after a few minutes' silence, renewed the conversation about his gig.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)