Crossword clues for dorian
dorian
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dorian \Do"ri*an\, n. A native or inhabitant of Doris in Greece.
Dorian \Do"ri*an\, a.
Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks of Doris; Doric; as, a Dorian fashion.
(Mus.) Same as Doric,
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``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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, in reference to the mode of ancient Greek music, literally "of Doris," from Greek Doris, district in central Greece, traditionally named for Doros, legendary ancestor of the Dorians, whose name is probably related to doron "gift" (see date (n.1)).
Wikipedia
Dorian is an indie rock band from Scotland.
Dorian may refer to:
- Dorians, one of the main ethnic divisions of ancient Greeks
- Doric Greek, the dialect spoken by the Dorians
Dorian is a given name of Greek origin. In Greek the meaning of the name Dorian is: Of Doris, a district of Greece; or of Doros, a legendary Greek hero. Doros was the son of Hellen of Sparta (who was the daughter of Zeus and Leda). Doros was the founder of the Dorian tribe, and the most likely origin of Doros' name was the greek word "doron", meaning "gift". The Dorians were an obscure, ancient Hellenic tribe that were supposed to have existed in the north-eastern regions of Greece, ancient Macedonia and Epirus.
Another possible origin of the name Dorian, is from the Greek "Dorios", meaning 'child of the sea' .
Dorian may refer to:
Dorian is a Turkish rock band. The band members are İlkin Kitapçı, Mehmet İncilli, Alex Tintaru, Afşar Yağcıoğlu and Murat Ötünç.
Usage examples of "dorian".
Ionian, Aeolian, and Dorian Greek cities and seaports of Asia Province made absolutely sure they treated this eastern potentate with all the obsequious prostrations his sort desired.
For instead of using his own men to implement it, the King had directed that each local community of Aeolian or Ionian or Dorian Greeks should do the killing.
From this distance, from the stateroom on the Carib Queen where Bill waited for Dorian to finish dressing, Bill could not even guess.
Out on the flat sediment of the chasma floor there stood aical Greek temple, six Dorian columns of white marble, capped by a round flat roof.
Quickly, Christa shifted to a delicately structured countermelody that hovered between the dorian and the phrygian mode, twined like a growing vine, reached out and enveloped Melinda.
Captain Folsom was propelled into the car with the Norths and Dorian, the door was slammed, the car squawked angrily, shivered and leaped like a cat with its tail stepped on.
Panos, his lifework destroyed, would go back to Athens and his masonry work, and Dorian Belecamus, the failed Pythia, would return to Paris and her teaching.
Dorian learned that the revolutionary junta still held power in Muscat, but that Caliph Zayn al-Din had consolidated his hold on Lamu and Zanzibar and all the other ports of the Omani empire.
Pinching his lips together and blinking once again, Dorian backed off two steps and watched as Picardy deftly inserted the tip of the sharp at sound-point eleven.
Ye Dorian woods and waves, lament aloud,-- Augment your tide, O streams, with fruitless tears, For the beloved Bion is no more.
Trojans took Dorian clothes, and spoke in the Dorian manner, then their Trojan features would fade into obscurity, and in the heat and haste of crowded streets strangers would find it all but impossible to teli them apart.
Dorian had said she would send the goat into the vapors early tomorrow.
It seemed to him that Dorian was trying to convince herself that the vapors caused some effect.
Dorian Belecamus was Pythia, and the next time the vapors rose she would be drawn into the mist again and he would be there, her guide, her interpreter, and her voice to the world.
Worlds on worlds are rolling ever : Would I were the winged cloud : Ye congregated powers of heaven, who share : Ye Dorian woods and waves, lament aloud : Ye gentle visitations of calm thought : Ye hasten to the grave!