Dorian1
[dawr-ee-uh n, dohr-]
- of or relating to the ancient Greek region of Doris or to the Dorians.
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- 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(def 2), Ionian(def 3).
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Origin of Dorian1
Dorian2
[dawr-ee-uh n, dohr-]
- a male or female given name.
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Examples from the Web for dorian
Contemporary Examples
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.
Historical Examples
Quite the reverse, he replied; and if so the Dorian and the Phrygian are the only ones which you have left.
The RepublicPlato
And these, he replied, are the Dorian and Phrygian harmonies of which I was just now speaking.
The RepublicPlato
Greek architecture for the purpose of this study is Dorian architecture, and its elements are simple.
The Legacy of GreeceVarious
These he explains will be only the Dorian and the Phrygian harmonies.
A Popular History of the Art of MusicW. S. B. Mathews
I want you to explain to me why you won't exhibit Dorian Gray's picture.
The Picture of Dorian GrayOscar Wilde
Dorian
- 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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- of or relating to this people or their dialect of Ancient Greek; Doric
- music of or relating to a mode represented by the ascending natural diatonic scale from D to DSee also Hypo-
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Word Origin and History for dorian
Dorian
adj.
c.1600, in reference to the mode of ancient Greek music, literally "of Doris," from Greek Doris, district in central Greece, traditionally named for Doros, legendary ancestor of the Dorians, whose name is probably related to doron "gift" (see date (n.1)).
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