Meanings
proper noun
- 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 […]
1944, Eric Linklater, The Wind on the Moon
Origin
An 18th-century coinage from Dora or Dorothy, + -inda.
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Cite this entry
APA
Dorinda. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Dorinda
MLA
“Dorinda.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Dorinda. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Dorinda,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Dorinda.
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