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单词 Dorian
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Definition of Dorian in English:

Dorian

noun ˈdɔːrɪənˈdɔriən
  • A member of a Hellenic people speaking the Doric dialect of Greek, thought to have entered Greece from the north c.1100 BC. They settled in the Peloponnese and later colonized Sicily and southern Italy.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • But, around 1100 BCE, the Mycenaeans were invaded by barbarians called Dorians and all their advances disappeared.
    • Next in the town's history, another important event happened during the Mycenean period, when the Dorians tried to invade and take the control over the town.
    • When Herodotus writes about Ionians, Dorians, Herakleeidai, Akhaians he also mentions myths of origins in relation to genealogies of the eponymous ancestors Helen, Doros, Aiolos, Ion, and Akhaios.
    • Herodotus speaks of Ionians, Dorians, Herakleeidai, and Akhaians among the Greeks, that is, with aggregative self-definitions.
adjective ˈdɔːrɪənˈdɔriən
  • Relating to the Dorians or to Doris in central Greece.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • But Pindar and others also assign the foundation of the games to Herakles, as noted above, an attempt, some have suggested, to assert a clearly Dorian claim to the foundation of the games, since Herakles is a Dorian hero.

Origin

Via Latin from Greek Dōrios 'of Doris' + -ian.

Rhymes

Ecuadorean, historian, Hyperborean, Nestorian, oratorian, praetorian (US pretorian), salutatorian, Salvadorean, Singaporean, stentorian, Taurean, valedictorian, Victorian
 
 

Definition of Dorian in US English:

Dorian

nounˈdɔriənˈdôrēən
  • A member of a Hellenic people speaking the Doric dialect of Greek, thought to have entered Greece from the north c.1100 BC. They settled in Peloponnesus and later colonized Sicily and southern Italy.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Next in the town's history, another important event happened during the Mycenean period, when the Dorians tried to invade and take the control over the town.
    • When Herodotus writes about Ionians, Dorians, Herakleeidai, Akhaians he also mentions myths of origins in relation to genealogies of the eponymous ancestors Helen, Doros, Aiolos, Ion, and Akhaios.
    • But, around 1100 BCE, the Mycenaeans were invaded by barbarians called Dorians and all their advances disappeared.
    • Herodotus speaks of Ionians, Dorians, Herakleeidai, and Akhaians among the Greeks, that is, with aggregative self-definitions.
adjectiveˈdɔriənˈdôrēən
  • Relating to the Dorian people or to Doris in central Greece.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • But Pindar and others also assign the foundation of the games to Herakles, as noted above, an attempt, some have suggested, to assert a clearly Dorian claim to the foundation of the games, since Herakles is a Dorian hero.

Origin

Via Latin from Greek Dōrios ‘of Doris’ + -ian.

 
 
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