Dorian

¹

[ dawr-ee-uhn, dohr- ]

adjective

1. of or relating to the ancient Greek region of Doris or to the Dorians.

noun

1. a member of a people who entered Greece about the 12th century b.c., conquered the Peloponnesus, and destroyed the Mycenaean culture: one of the four main divisions of the prehistoric Greeks. Compare Achaean ( def 5 ), Aeolian ²( def 3 ), Ionian ( def 3 ).

Dorian

²

[ dawr-ee-uhn, dohr- ]

noun

1. a male or female given name.

Dorian

/ ˈdɔːrɪən /

noun

1. a member of a Hellenic people who invaded Greece around 1100 bc , overthrew the Mycenaean civilization, and settled chiefly in the Peloponnese

adjective

1. of or relating to this people or their dialect of Ancient Greek; Doric
2. See Hypo-
   music of or relating to a mode represented by the ascending natural diatonic scale from D to D See also Hypo-

Word History and Origins

Origin of Dorian¹

1595–1605; < Latin Dōri ( us ) (< Greek Dṓrios Dorian) + -an

Example Sentences

Brown and his friend Dorian Johnson were going down the middle of the block for everyone to see.

From The Daily Beast

Just so with Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto, whose identity seems increasingly lost in a cyber thicket that no one can penetrate.

From The Daily Beast

White is “150 pages into” a novel about “a Dorian Grey-ish figure, a male model in Paris in about 1980.”

From The Daily Beast

Once Kennex and Dorian are paired, the pilot spends the rest of the time trying to sell us this odd couple as a duo.

From The Daily Beast

The show also provides several moments for Dorian to prove his usefulness to Kennex.

From The Daily Beast

The view here taken of the Hypo-dorian evidently agrees with that of Heraclides Ponticus (supra, p. 10).

From Project Gutenberg

The exception is the Mixo-lydian, which some ranked immediately below the Dorian, others above the Lydian.

From Project Gutenberg

In this case, then, the upper of the two octaves answers to the Hypo-dorian key, and the lower to the Locrian.

From Project Gutenberg

The fact that the Hypo-dorian or Locrian species was also called Common is a further argument to the same purpose.

From Project Gutenberg

The Hypo-dorian and Hypo-phrygian, which employ the new characters and , are known to be comparatively recent.

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