n. & adj.
n. (in pl.) a Greek-speaking people thought to have entered Greece from the north c.1100 BC and settled in parts of Central and S. Greece.
adj. of or relating to the Dorians or to Doris in Central Greece. Dorian mode Mus. the mode represented by the natural diatonic scale D-D.
[ L Dorius f. Gk Dorios f. Doros, the mythical ancestor ]