Dorian - Dictionary Definition and Overview

Dorian :  (noun)

1: a member of one of the four divisions of the prehistoric Greeks [syn: Dorian]

Based on WordNet 2.0

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.

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Dorian : \Do"ri*an\, n. A native or inhabitant of Doris in Greece.

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Example Usage of Dorian

emworm: Happy Birthday Stuart Townsend aka lush Vamp in Queen of the Damned and Dorian Gray in the rubbish The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
ms_tfny: @Dorian_stewart: thank you Dorian. Yours is pretty epic too! (are you proud of me? i used epic)
diane__h: Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Myxolydian, Aoelian, Locrian. Booyeah.
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