Doric (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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adjective
  1. of or relating to Doris, its inhabitants, or their dialect.
  2. rustic, as a dialect.
  3. noting or pertaining to one of the five classical orders, developed in Greece and altered by the Romans. The Greek Doric order consists typically of a channeled column without a base, having as a capital a circular echinus supporting a square abacus, above which come a plain architrave, a frieze of triglyphs and metopes, and a cornice, the corona of which has mutules on its soffit. In the Roman Doric order, the columns usually have bases, the channeling is sometimes altered or omitted, and the capital usually consists of three parts: a thick, bandlike necking, an echinus with an ovolo outline, and a molded abacus.
noun
  1. a dialect of ancient Greek spoken on Rhodes and other islands of the Dodecanese, in Crete, in Syracuse, and in all of the Peloponnesus except Arcadia.
  2. rustic English speech.
adjective
  1. of or relating to the Dorians, esp the Spartans, or their dialect of Ancient Greek
  2. of, denoting, or relating to one of the five classical orders of architecture: characterized by a column having no base, a heavy fluted shaft, and a capital consisting of an ovolo moulding beneath a square abacus
  3. rustic
noun
  1. one of four chief dialects of Ancient Greek, spoken chiefly in the Peloponnese
  2. any rural dialect, esp that spoken in the northeast of Scotland
Doric (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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