Definitions for Doric
Doric
Dor·ic
Spelling: [dawr-ik, dor-]
IPA: /ˈdɔr ɪk, ˈdɒr-/
Doric is a 5 letter English word.
You can make 63 anagrams from letters in Doric (cdior).
Definitions for Doric
noun
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a dialect of ancient Greek spoken on Rhodes and other islands of the Dodecanese, in Crete, in Syracuse, and in all of the Peloponnesus except Arcadia.
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rustic English speech.
adjective
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of or relating to Doris, its inhabitants, or their dialect.
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rustic, as a dialect.
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Architecture. noting or pertaining to one of the five classical orders, developed in Greece and altered by the Romans. The Greek Doric order consists typically of a channeled column without a base, having as a capital a circular echinus supporting a square abacus, above which come a plain architrave, a frieze of triglyphs and metopes, and a cornice, the corona of which has mutules on its soffit. In the Roman Doric order, the columns usually have bases, the channeling is sometimes altered or omitted, and the capital usually consists of three parts: a thick, bandlike necking, an echinus with an ovolo outline, and a molded abacus.
Compare composite (def 2), Corinthian (def 2), Ionic (def 1), Tuscan (def 2).
Origin of Doric
1555-65; Latin Dōricus Greek Dōrikós Dorian
Examples for Doric
Triglyph, the channelled feature in the frieze of the Doric order.
Identical with this in form is the chiton worn by Doric women.
Attic doorways are built with the same proportions as Doric.
The entablature (Fig. 70) is, generally speaking, richer than that of the Doric order.
The fluting of the Doric column will thus be finished in the style appropriate to it.
In this form, the Doric column was an absolutely fresh note in architecture.
The redwoods of the West become columns of Doric eloquence and simplicity.
The shaft (Figs. 67, 70) is of more slender proportions than the Doric shaft.
Perhaps the only fault of the detail is that the Doric pilasters and columns are too tall.
The pillars of this cloister were Doric on the ground-floor, Ionic above.