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Do·ri·an    Audio Help   [dawr-ee-uhn, dohr-] Pronunciation Key
–adjective
1.of or pertaining to the ancient Greek region of Doris or to the Dorians.
–noun
2.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. 4).
[Origin: 1595–1605; < L Dōri(us) (< Gk Drios Dorian) + -an]
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Do·ri·an    Audio Help   [dawr-ee-uhn, dohr-] Pronunciation Key
–noun
a male or female given name.
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Do·ri·an    Audio Help   (dôr'ē-ən, dōr'-)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   One of a Hellenic people that invaded Greece around 1100 B.C. and remained culturally and linguistically distinct within the Greek world.


[Latin Dōriānus, from Dōrius, from Greek Dōrios, from Dōris, Doris.]

Do'ri·an adj.
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Dorian 
1603, in reference to the mode of ancient Gk. music, lit. "of Doris," from Gk. Doris, district in central Greece, traditionally named for Doros, legendary ancestor of the Dorians, whose name is probably related to doron "gift."

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dorian

adjective
1. of or relating to the ancient Greek inhabitants of Doris, to their Doric dialect of Greek, or to their culture 

noun
1. a member of one of four linguistic divisions of the prehistoric Greeks 
2. the ancient Greek inhabitants of Doris who entered Greece from the north about 1100 BC 

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Dorian

Do"ri*an\, a. 1. Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks of Doris; Doric; as, a Dorian fashion.

2. (Mus.) Same as Doric, 3. "Dorian mood." --Milton.

Dorian mode (Mus.), the first of the authentic church modes or tones, from D to D, resembling our D minor scale, but with the B natural. --Grove.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

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