Dictionary  Do•ri•anPronunciation: (dôr'ē-un, dōr'-), [key] —adj. of or pertaining to the ancient Greek region of Doris or to the Dorians. —n. 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. Cf. Achaean (def. 5), Aeolian (def. 2), Ionian (def. 4). Do•ri•anPronunciation: (dôr'ē-un, dōr'-), [key] —n. a male or female given name. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
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