Dorothy

[dawr-uh-thee, dor-]

noun

1. a female given name, form of Dorothea.

Example Sentences

A late-2009 YouTube upload from the NYC-based photographer Dorothy Shi takes us behind the scenes of a photo shoot for Livvy Grant herself.

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The second film provides fresh origin stories for Dorothy's travel companions in Oz - the Cowardly Lion, Scarecrow and Tin Man.

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I had heard through the grapevine that a former math teacher named Dorothy Vaughan was running NACA’s highly regarded West Area computing unit, which was composed entirely of Colored women.

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A White woman, Margery Hannah, was the head of West Computing and was Dorothy’s boss.

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It soon became clear that Dorothy was highly respected by both White people and Colored people.

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