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Do⋅ri⋅an

  [dawr-ee-uhn, dohr-]
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–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

Do⋅ri⋅an

  [dawr-ee-uhn, dohr-]
–noun
a male or female given name.
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Do·ri·an   (dôr'ē-ən, dōr'-)   
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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Word Origin & History

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."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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