Dorinda
name
name ·3 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A female given name from Ancient Greek.
"Every child in the Square at once hurried and thrust and scrambled and pushed a way through the crowd, and in less than a minute Dinah and Dorinda were entirely surrounded by fifty or sixty boys and girls, all shouting […]"
Example
More examples"Every child in the Square at once hurried and thrust and scrambled and pushed a way through the crowd, and in less than a minute Dinah and Dorinda were entirely surrounded by fifty or sixty boys and girls, all shouting […]"
Etymology
An 18th-century coinage from Dora or Dorothy, + -inda.
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