Doris
Doris can mean several things:
* In
Greek mythology,
Doris ("bountiful") was an
Oceanid, daughter of
Oceanus and
Tethys. She was married to
Nereus and their fifty daughters were called the
Nereids.
* In
geography and
history,
Doris was the region in central
Greece in which the
Dorians had their traditional homeland.
* In geography and history,
Doris was a region of
Asia Minor inhabited by Dorians.
* In
naval history,
Doris was a French coastal
submarine of the Sirène class. At 00.14 hours on
9 May 1940, the Doris (CdC Favreul) was torpedoed and sunk North West off the Dutch Coast, 30 miles from
Den Helder, by the German submarine
U-9.
* In
astronomy,
48 Doris is an
asteroid.
*
Doris is also
microbrowser product developed by a small
Finland-based company,
Anygraaf, for
Symbian operating system.
*In
zoology it is a genus of
marine mollusc.
*
Doris was a Swedish pop group between 1966 and a few years into the 1970s.
* Finally, in
British rhyming slang,
Doris is a mild insult on a par with 'pansy' (from
Doris Day meaning
gay).
