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• doré
  doré

  noun

  the walleye or pike perch of North America.
• Dore
  Dore

  noun

  Monts a group of mountains in central France: highest peak, 6,188 feet (1,885 meters).
• Doré
  Doré

  noun

  (Paul) Gustave 1832?–83, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor.

doré

¹ American  

[daw-rey] / dɔˈreɪ /

noun

Canadian Dialect.

1. the walleye or pike perch of North America.

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doré ² American  

[daw-rey] / dɔˈreɪ /

noun

Mining.

1. a mixture of gold and silver in cast bars, as bullion.

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Dore ³ American  

[dawr] / dɔr /

noun

1. Monts a group of mountains in central France: highest peak, 6,188 feet (1,885 meters).

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Doré ⁴ American  

[daw-rey, daw-rey] / dɔˈreɪ, dɔˈreɪ /

noun

1. (Paul) Gustave 1832?–83, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor.

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Doré ¹ British  

/ dɔre /

noun

1. ( Paul ) Gustave (ɡystav). 1832–83, French illustrator, whose style tended towards the grotesque. He illustrated the Bible, Dante's Inferno, Cervantes' Don Quixote, and works by Rabelais

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doré ² British  

/ -riː, ˈdɔːreɪ /

noun

1. another name for walleye walleye

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Etymology

Origin of doré¹

1765–75; < Canadian French: literally, gilded, French < Late Latin deaurātus; see dorado

Origin of doré²

< French: literally, gilded; < Late Latin deaurātus; see dorado

Example Sentences

"This isn't an easy situation for anyone," Dore noted.

From BBC • May 9, 2026

Kevin Dore, 74, from Shepherd's Bush, used to drink with Paul and knew him for more than 20 years.

From BBC • Jul. 21, 2025

“It is not the job of a card reader to promise revelations,” Jessica Dore writes in her book “Tarot for Change,” “because that’s not how secrets work.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2024

He welcomed Jimmy Dore, another conspiracy-theory-minded comedian-podcaster, for a remote interview, thanking him for a mood lift “at a time where I plainly need it.”

From New York Times • Nov. 13, 2023

He had no idea where he had got his picture of academic life—perhaps from the Dore illustrations of Dante’s Inferno with its massed and radiant angels.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck