Doris

From Ancient Greek Δωρίς (Dōrís, “a nymph, one of the daughters of Oceanus”)

Doris f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Dorididae – sea slugs, specifically, dorid nudibranchs.

• Alloiodoris
• Aphelodoris
• Ardeadoris
• Baptodoris
• Chromodoris
• Dendrodoris
• Dictyodoris
• Discodoris
• Diversidoris
• Doridoeides
• Doriopsis
• Doriorbis
• Doriprismatica
• Geitodoris
• Glossodoris
• Goniodoris
• Hiatodoris
• Homoiodoris
• Hoplodoris
• Hypselodoris
• Lophodoris
• Murphydoris
• Nophodoris
• Onchidoris
• Paradoris
• Peltodoris
• Pharodoris
• Platydoris
• Sclerodoris
• Sebadoris

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• Doris on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Doris (Nudibranchia) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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The feminine form of Doric.

Doris

1. (Greek mythology) The daughter of Oceanus, who married Nereus and bore fifty sea-nymphs or nereids.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book IV, canto XI, stanza 49:

     And snowy neckd Doris, and milkewhite Galathæa.

2. A region of Asia Minor inhabited by the ancient Dorians.
3. (astronomy) 48 Doris, a main belt asteroid.
4. A female given name, taken to regular use at the end of the 19th century.
   • 1866, Mary A. Prescott, "Doris Daylesford, A Story", in Beadle's Monthly Magazine of To-day, volume 2, page 149:

     "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 belongs to myself as well as to my niece […]

   • 1989, Judy Carter, Stand-up Comedy: A Book →ISBN, page 35:

     I've never met an old person named Judy. Now that's true. Maybe something happens to girls with young names like Debby, Judy, and Susie. At a certain age they make you change it to Doris, Edna, or Myrtle.

5. (Britain, slang) One's girlfriend, wife or significant other.

From the name of famous film star Doris Day; (Cockney rhyming slang).

Doris (not comparable)

1. (Cockney rhyming slang) gay

• 'roids, DOSRI, Sidor, dorsi-, roids, rosid

From English Doris.

Doris

1. a female given name
2. (Greek mythology) the nereid Doris
3. a region of Asia Minor inhabited by the ancient Dorians
4. (astronomy) the asteroid 48 Doris

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:Doris.

Doris

1. A female given name borrowed from English usage, popular in the 1920s and the 1930s.

Doris f

1. A female given name

Matronymics

• son of Doris: Dorisarson
• daughter of Doris: Dorisardóttir

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Doris

1. A female given name borrowed from English usage, popular in the mid-twentieth century.

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Δωρίς (Dōrís).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈdoː.ris/, [ˈdoː.rɪs]

Dōris f sg (genitive Dōridis); third declension

1. (geography) A small region of ancient Greece

Third-declension noun, singular only.

• Doris in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Doris in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Doris c (genitive Doris)

1. A female given name borrowed from English usage, popular in the 1920s and the 1930s.