Dorian vs Greek

Greek vs Dorian

Dorian and Greek both are nouns.

Dorian and Greek both are adjectives.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Dorian	Yes	Yes	No	No
Greek	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, Greek is a hypernym of Dorian; that is, Greek is a word with a broader meaning than Dorian:

Dorian: a member of one of four linguistic divisions of the prehistoric Greeks, spoken in the southern and eastern Peloponnese, Crete, Rhodes, some islands in the southern Aegean Sea, some cities on the coasts of Asia Minor, Southern Italy, Sicily, Epirus and Macedon
Greek: a native or inhabitant of Greece

Other hypernyms of Dorian include Hellene.

Dorian (noun)	Greek (noun)
the ancient Greek inhabitants of Doris who entered Greece from the north about 1100 BC	the Hellenic branch of the Indo-European family of languages
a member of one of four linguistic divisions of the prehistoric Greeks, spoken in the southern and eastern Peloponnese, Crete, Rhodes, some islands in the southern Aegean Sea, some cities on the coasts of Asia Minor, Southern Italy, Sicily, Epirus and Macedon	a native or inhabitant of Greece

Dorian (adjective)	Greek (adjective)
of or relating to the ancient Greek inhabitants of Doris, to their Doric dialect of Greek, or to their culture	of or relating to or characteristic of Greece or the Greeks or the Greek language

Difference between Dorian and Greek

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