Doric can refer to several different things, depending on the context:

1. Doric dialect (Scotland): Doric is the popular name for Mid Northern Scots or Northeast Scots, which refers to the Scots language as spoken in the northeast of Scotland). It is a distinctive, well-preserved form of the Scots language that is spoken across non-Gaelic Scotland and in pockets in the northernmost counties of Ireland. Doric is used in literature, mostly poetry, ballads, and songs, and a number of 20th and 21st century poets have written poetry in the Doric dialect).

2. Doric Greek: Doric or Dorian was a group of Ancient Greek dialects, and its varieties are divided into the Doric proper and Northwest Doric subgroups. Doric was spoken in a vast area, including northern Greece, most of the Peloponnese, the southern Aegean, as well as the colonies of some of the aforementioned regions, in Cyrene, Magna Graecia, the Black Sea, the Ionian Sea, and the Adriatic Sea. It is widely accepted that Doric originated in the mountains of Epirus in northwestern Greece, the original seat of the Dorians, and was expanded to all other regions during the Dorian invasion (c. 1150 BC) and the colonizations that followed.

3. Doric order (architecture): The Doric order is one of the orders of classical architecture, characterized by a simple and austere column and capital. It was the oldest and plainest of the three orders of classical Greek architecture, and it became the preferred style of the Greek mainland and the western colonies (southern Italy and Sicily). In the Roman Doric order, the columns are more slender, usually have bases, and the fluting is sometimes altered or omitted.

In summary, Doric can refer to a dialect of the Scots language spoken in northeast Scotland, a group of Ancient Greek dialects, or an order of classical architecture characterized by a simple and austere column and capital.