Dorinda

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Dorinda

/dɔːˈɹɪn.də/ US

Rhymes with -ɪndə

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An 18th-century coinage from Dora or Dorothy, + -inda.

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 […]

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@misc{dorinda_2026,
  title = {Dorinda},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dorinda},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}