adj
Meaning 1
Of a bright yellow or golden color.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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Standard Lemma guide
dory
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈdɔːɹi/
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CMU ARPABET: D AO1 R IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A diminutive of the female given names Dorothy or Doris.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 3
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
A small flat-bottomed boat with pointed or somewhat pointed ends, used for fishing both offshore and on rivers.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: nautical, transport
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noun
Meaning 5
Any of several different families of large-eyed, silvery, deep-bodied, laterally compressed, and roughly discoid marine fish.
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noun
Meaning 6
A wooden pike or spear about three metres (ten feet) in length with a flat, leaf-shaped iron spearhead and a bronze butt-spike (called a sauroter), which was the main weapon of hoplites in Ancient Greece. It was usually not thrown but rather thrust at opponents with one hand.
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noun
Meaning 7
marine fishes widely distributed in mid-waters and deep slope waters
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: spiny-finned fish, acanthopterygian
Narrower terms: John Dory, Zeus faber
noun
Meaning 8
pike-like freshwater perches
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: walleye, walleyed pike, jack salmon, Stizostedion vitreum
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: pike-perch, pike perch
Narrower terms: blue pike, blue pickerel, blue pikeperch, blue walleye, Strizostedion vitreum glaucum
noun
Meaning 9
a small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dinghy, rowboat
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Broader terms: small boat
Narrower terms: rowing boat, wherry
History
Etymology
From Middle English dorry, from Old French doree, past participle of dorer (“to gild”), from Latin deauratus.
Attested in American English from 1709 C.E.; possibly derived from an indigenous language of the West Indies or Central America, perhaps Miskito.
PIE word *dóru Borrowed from Ancient Greek δόρυ (dóru).
Across languages
Translations
10 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- French: doris — type of boat
- German: Doriboot — type of boat
- German: Dorie — type of boat
- German: Dory — type of boat
- Irish: dóraí — type of boat
- Māori: paneke — type of boat
- Bulgarian: Светипетрова риба (Svetipetrova riba) — Translations
- Indonesian: dori — Translations
- Māori: kuparu — Translations
- Māori: pukeru — Translations