1. (Greek mythology) The daughter of Oceanus, who married Nereus and bore fifty sea-nymphs or nereids.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938 ↗, book IV, canto XI, stanza 49:

     And snowy neckd Doris, and milkewhite Galathæa.

2. A region of Asia Minor inhabited by the ancient Dorians.
3. (astronomy) 48 Doris, a main belt asteroid.
4. A female given name, taken to regular use at the end of the 19th century.
   • 1866, Mary A. Prescott, "Doris Daylesford, A Story", in Beadle's Monthly Magazine of To-day, volume 2, page 149:

     "My Doris—may I call you that, dearest?"

     "Call me Sappho, call me Chloris, call me Lalage, or Doris—only call me thine," I should have answered, if it had not been a little too sentimental.… I am afraid I omitted to state, in the proper place, that Doris is a name which has descended through a dozen generations of our family, that it belongs to myself as well as to my niece […]

5. (British, slang) One's girlfriend, wife or significant other.

Doris (not comparable)

1. (Cockney rhyming slang) gay