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dors

dors is the plural of dor.

Meaning of dor

Noun (1)

dor (plural dors)

  1. Any of species Geotrupes stercorarius of large European dung beetles that make a droning noise while flying.
  2. Any flying insect which makes a loud humming noise, such as the June bug or a bumblebee.

Noun (2)

dor (plural dors)

  1. (obsolete) A trick, joke, or deception.
    • To say you were impotent! I am ashamed on 't! To make yourself no man? to a fresh maid too, A longing maid? upon her wedding-night also, To give her such a dor?1624 June 6 (licensing date; Gregorian calendar), John Fletcher, “A Wife for a Moneth”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published...

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Proper noun capitalized: Dors

Dors

  1. (plural) plural of Dor

Questions about dors

What is dors the plural of?
Dors is the plural of dor.
What part of speech is dors?
Dors is a proper noun.

Words near dors in the dictionary

  1. dorrite
  2. Dorrough
  3. Dorroughby
  4. Dorroughs
  5. dorrs
  6. dors
  7. dors-
  8. Dors.
  9. dorsa
  10. dorsad
  11. Dorsainvil

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dors (page history and authors); Dors (page history and authors); dor (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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