Dorothy

[dawr-uh-thee, dor-]

noun

1. a female given name, form of Dorothea.

Example Sentences

She organized a river cleanup for the group Friends of the Los Angeles River, and then a pivotal moment came in 1996 when she attended a meeting where she heard activist Dorothy Green eloquently describe how concrete channels had starved the life from waterways, and how the city could make room for the river once again.

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The friendship, which began when the two men joined Parliament in 1924, ended five years later, after Boothby began an affair with Macmillan’s wife, Dorothy.

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Remember when Dorothy was saying in “The Wizard Of Oz”: “There’s no place like home. There’s no place like home.”

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The film's trailer also teases the arrival of Dorothy - seen walking down the yellow brick road with her friends - suggesting the character might have a bigger role in the films than in the musical.

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Famously one of Dorothy’s traveling companions in L. Frank Baum’s “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” and its various adaptations, the Cowardly Lion is introduced in “Wicked” as a caged young cub that is brought to Shiz by a new professor after the school bars all animals from teaching classes.

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