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Dorian
1[ dawr-ee-uhn, dohr- ]
adjective
- of or relating to the ancient Greek region of Doris or to the Dorians.
noun
- 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
- a male or female given name.
Dorian
/ ˈdɔːrɪən /
noun
- a member of a Hellenic people who invaded Greece around 1100 bc , overthrew the Mycenaean civilization, and settled chiefly in the Peloponnese
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Brown and his friend Dorian Johnson were going down the middle of the block for everyone to see.
Just so with Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto, whose identity seems increasingly lost in a cyber thicket that no one can penetrate.
White is “150 pages into” a novel about “a Dorian Grey-ish figure, a male model in Paris in about 1980.”
Once Kennex and Dorian are paired, the pilot spends the rest of the time trying to sell us this odd couple as a duo.
The show also provides several moments for Dorian to prove his usefulness to Kennex.
The view here taken of the Hypo-dorian evidently agrees with that of Heraclides Ponticus (supra, p. 10).
The exception is the Mixo-lydian, which some ranked immediately below the Dorian, others above the Lydian.
In this case, then, the upper of the two octaves answers to the Hypo-dorian key, and the lower to the Locrian.
The fact that the Hypo-dorian or Locrian species was also called Common is a further argument to the same purpose.
The Hypo-dorian and Hypo-phrygian, which employ the new characters and , are known to be comparatively recent.
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