<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>of or relating to Doris, its inhabitants, or their dialect.</li><li>rustic, as a dialect.</li><li>Architecture: noting or pertaining to one of the five classical orders, developed in Greece and altered by the Romans.</li><li>The Greek Doric order consists typically of a channeled column without a base, having as a capital a circular echinus supporting a square abacus, above which come a plain architrave, a frieze of triglyphs and metopes, and a cornice, the corona of which has mutules on its soffit.</li><li>In the Roman Doric order, the columns usually have bases, the channeling is sometimes altered or omitted, and the capital usually consists of three parts: a thick, bandlike necking, an echinus with an ovolo outline, and a molded abacus.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a dialect of ancient Greek spoken on Rhodes and other islands of the Dodecanese, in Crete, in Syracuse, and in all of the Peloponnesus except Arcadia.</li><li>rustic English speech.</li></ul>