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dor

1
or dorr

[ dawr ]

noun

  1. Also dor·bee·tle [] a common European dung beetle, Geotrupes stercorarius.
  2. any of several insects, as the June bug, that make a buzzing noise in flight.


dor

2

[ dawr ]

noun

, Archaic.
  1. mockery; scorn.

Dor.

3

abbreviation for

  1. Dorian.
  2. Doric.

dor

/ dɔː /

noun

  1. any European dung beetle of the genus Geotrupes and related genera, esp G. stercorarius, having a droning flight


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Word History and Origins

Origin of dor1

First recorded before 900; Middle English dor(r)e, Old English dora; compare Middle Low German dorte “drone”

Origin of dor2

1545–55; < Old Norse dār mockery; compare German Tor fool

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Word History and Origins

Origin of dor1

Old English dora bumblebee; related to Middle Low German dorte drone 1

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Example Sentences

Tree of Life, starring Brad Pitt, was awarded the Palme d'Or, Cannes' highest prize, on Sunday.

Tell us about the Bocuse d'Or (the cooking competition known as the Olympics of Food) coming up.

This week, a Palme d'Or winner at Cannes is a powerful portrait of high-school life in Paris.

I took up my position at the Maison-d'or, in one of the first-floor rooms, and did not lose sight of the window for an instant.

Among the short poems that constitute the volume called Lis Isclo d'Or are a number of masterpieces.

The poems of the Isclo d'Or offer over eighty varieties of strophe, a most remarkable number.

She sat at the table, Jean across, and struggled with centimes and francs and louis d'or, an engrossed frown between her eyebrows.

Having made him drunk, they won from him in less than an hour eight hundred louis d'or.

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