Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - dorian

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. Phrases and idioms Dorian mode Mus. the mode represented by the natural diatonic scale D-D. Etymology: L Dorius f. Gk Dorios f. Doros, the mythical ancestor