Dorises

Proper noun

Doris (plural Dorises)

1. (Greek) The daughter of Oceanus, who married Nereus and bore fifty sea-nymphs or nereids.
   • And snowy neckd Doris, and milkewhite Galathæa.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 49
2. An ancient region of Asia Minor, modern Turkey, inhabited by the ancient Dorians.
3. An ancient mountainous region of Greece, the traditional homeland of the Dorians.
4. 48 Doris, a main belt asteroid.

   Synonyms:

   48 Doris, ㊽

5. A female given name from Ancient Greek, taken to regular use at the end of the 19th century.
   • "My Doris—may I call you that, dearest?"
   • "Call me Sappho, call me Chloris, call me Lalage, or Doris—only call me thine," I should have answered, if it had not been a little too sentimental.… I am afraid I omitted to state, in the proper place, that Doris is a name which has descended through a dozen generations of our family, that it...1866, Mary A. Prescott, “Doris Daylesford, A Story”, in Beadle's Monthly Magazine of To-day, volume 2, page 149
6. A surname.

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