dory

Other forms of dory

plural

dories·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dory

What does dory mean?

dory means "a small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dory?

dory has 2 syllables: do-ry. The stress falls on "do". In IPA it is /ˈdɔɹi/.

What is another word for dory?

Close synonyms include dinghy, rowboat, walleye, walleyed pike, jack salmon. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dory a common word?

dory is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.