dories
Meaning of dories
plural noun
a narrow deep-bodied fish with a mouth that can be opened very wide.
late Middle English: from French dorée, feminine past participle of dorer ‘gild’, from late Latin deaurare ‘gild over’, based on Latin aurum ‘gold’. Compare with dorado.
plural noun
a small flat-bottomed rowing boat with a high bow and stern, originally of a kind used for fishing in New England.
early 18th century: perhaps from Miskito dóri ‘dugout’.
Information about dories
- It is a name.
- The singular form of dories is: dory.
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Hyphenation of dories
dories
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- dories is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
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