Dorset Definition

dôrsĭt
noun
An early Native American culture flourishing in small coastal settlements in northern Greenland and the eastern Canadian Arctic south to Newfoundland from about 800 bc to ad 1000.
American Heritage
Any of a breed of medium-sized sheep, originally from Dorset: formerly, both male and female had horns (hence the former name Dorset Horn), but today the polled variety prevails.
Webster's New World
pronoun

A maritime county of England bounded by Somerset, Wiltshire, Hampshire, Devon and the English Channel.

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Origin of Dorset

  • After Cape Dorset , Baffin Island, site of excavations

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • After Dorset

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Dorset Sentence Examples

  • The duke of Dorset's reappointment to the lord-lieutenancy in 1751, with his son Lord George Sackville as secretary of state for Ireland, strengthened the primate's position and enabled him to triumph over the popular party on the constitutional question as to the right of the Irish House of Commons to dispose of surplus Irish revenue, which the government maintained was the property of the Crown.

  • The first marble quarry was opened in Dorset in 1785 and a second at Middlebury in 1805; and the first granite was quarried in 1812.

  • He must have been elected fellow of Magdalen some years before; and as master of Magdalen College school he had under his charge three sons of Thomas Grey, first marquess of Dorset.

  • Dorset's beneficent intentions for his sons' pedagogue probably suggested Wolsey's ordination as priest at Marlborough on March ro, 1498, and on October io, r50o, he was instituted, on Dorset's presentation, to the rectory of Limington in Somerset.

  • Dorset died in 1501, but Wolsey found other patrons in his pursuit of wealth and fame.

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DDODOR

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