ALL meanings of doric
Dor·ic
D d - adjective doric of or relating to Doris, its inhabitants, or their dialect. 1
- adjective doric rustic, as a dialect. 1
- adjective doric 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). 1
- noun doric 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. 1
- noun doric rustic English speech. 1
- adjective doric of or relating to the Dorians, esp the Spartans, or their dialect of Ancient Greek 0
- adjective doric of, denoting, or relating to one of the five classical orders of architecture: characterized by a column having no base, a heavy fluted shaft, and a capital consisting of an ovolo moulding beneath a square abacus 0
- adjective doric rustic 0
- noun doric one of four chief dialects of Ancient Greek, spoken chiefly in the Peloponnese 0
- noun doric any rural dialect, esp that spoken in the northeast of Scotland 0
- adjective doric of Doris or its people, language, or culture 0
- adjective doric designating or of a classical (Greek or Roman) order of architecture, distinguished by simplicity of form, esp. by fluted columns with simple capitals 0
- noun doric the Greek dialect of Doris 0
- noun doric a rustic English dialect as contrasted with Standard English 0