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dorian
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun dorian has 2 senses
- dorian(n = noun.person) Array - a member of one of four linguistic divisions of the prehistoric Greeks; Array is a kind of greek, hellene
- dorian(n = noun.group) Array - the ancient Greek inhabitants of Doris who entered Greece from the north about 1100 BC; Array is a kind of citizenry, people
Adjective dorian has 1 sense
OXFORD DICTIONARY
dorian, n. & adj.
--n. (in pl.) a Greek-speaking people thought to have entered Greece from the north c.1100 BC and settled in parts of Central and S. Greece.
--adj. of or relating to the Dorians or to Doris in Central Greece.
--n. (in pl.) a Greek-speaking people thought to have entered Greece from the north c.1100 BC and settled in parts of Central and S. Greece.
--adj. of or relating to the Dorians or to Doris in Central Greece.
Idiom
Dorian mode Mus. the mode represented by the natural diatonic scale D-D.
Etymology
L Dorius f. Gk Dorios f. Doros, the mythical ancestor
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