Crossword-Solution: DORIC 5 letters, 154 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
Doric a. Pertaining to Doris, in ancient Greece, or to the Dorians;
as, the Doric dialect.
Doric a. Belonging to, or resembling, the oldest and simplest of the
three orders of architecture used by the Greeks, but ranked as second
of the five orders adopted by the Romans. See Abacus, Capital, Order.
Doric a. Of or relating to one of the ancient Greek musical modes or
keys. Its character was adapted both to religions occasions and to war.
Doric n. The Doric dialect.

We have 154 clues for the answer “DORIC”

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A boldface type 1 answer
Ancient architectural style 1 answer
Architectural order including circular column tops 1 answer
Choice in columns 1 answer
Classic style of architecture 1 answer
Classical Greek order 1 answer
Classical Greek style 1 answer
Classical building style 1 answer
Classical style 1 answer
Column category 1 answer
Column type at the Lincoln Memorial 1 answer
Column type said to be "masculine" 1 answer
Column with a simple capital 1 answer
Composite, Corinthian, ___, Ionic, Tuscan 1 answer
Corinthian and Ionic alternative 1 answer
Corinthian's alternative 1 answer
Corinthian's cousin 1 answer
DORIAN 1 answer
Descriptive of the Parthenon. 1 answer
Dialect in ancient Greece 1 answer
Dialect of ancient Greece 1 answer
Earliest Greek architecture. 1 answer
Early Greek architecture style 1 answer
Early Greek style 1 answer
First order of Greek architecture 1 answer
Fluted style 1 answer
GREEK dialect, ancient 1 answer
Greek architectural type 1 answer
Greek column category 1 answer
Ionic alternative 1 answer
Kind of column in ancient Greece 1 answer
Language of ancient Rhodes 1 answer
Like a classical column 1 answer
Like some Greek architecture 1 answer
Like some classical architecture 1 answer
Like the Brandenburg Gate's columns 1 answer
Like the Parthenon's architecture 1 answer
Like the Parthenon's columns 1 answer
Like the columns at the Temple of Hephaestus 1 answer
Like the columns of the Lincoln Memorial 1 answer
Lincoln Memorial column style 1 answer
Of Periclean architectural style. 1 answer
One of the classical orders of architecture 1 answer
Order of ancient Greeks 1 answer
Order of antiquity 1 answer
Order with circular capitals 1 answer
Order with simple capitals 1 answer
Parthenon descriptor 1 answer
Parthenon order 1 answer
Parthenon style 1 answer
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Sentences with DORIC (5)

Anon out of the earth a Fabrick huge Rose like an Exhalation, with the sound Of Dulcet Symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a Temple, where _Pilasters_ round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With Golden Architrave; nor did there want Cornice or Freeze, with bossy Sculptures grav’n, The Roof was fretted Gold.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
Sauntering about Paris, he comes upon the Doric little Morgue, the dead-house, where they show their drowned.
Introduction to Robert Browning Hiram Corson 2008
His opinions, thus given in Doric, and conceived in a lively, rugged, conversational style, were full of point and authority.
Virginibus Puerisque Robert Louis Stevenson 2012
Thus sang the uncouth swain to the oaks and rills, While the still morn went out with sandals grey: He touched the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay: And now the sun had stretched out all the hills, And now was dropt into the western bay.
L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas John Milton 1995
Magnard's paper in the Proceedings of the American Oriental Society, October, 1889, entitled Reminiscences of Egypt in Doric Architecture.
History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom Andrew Dickson White 1996

Quotes with DORIC (2)

I’m relieved to seethat even brilliant physicists make mistakes.” Kohler looked over. “What do you mean?”“Whoever wrote that note made a mistake. That column isn’t Ionic. Ionic columns are uniform in width. That one’s tapered. It’s Doric — the Greek counterpart. A common mistake.” Kohler did not smile. “The author meant it as a joke, Mr. Langdon. Ionic means containing ions — electrically charged particles. Most objects contain them.
Dan Brown Angels & Demons
We reach a secondary road and - here comes the bonus - we pass the Temple of Neptune and Cerene, at Paestum, both looking beautiful in the sunlight. Strung from the Doric columns are lines of soldiers' washing. At last they had been put to practical use. If only the ancient Greeks had known.
Spike Milligan
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 154 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).