Dora

Dora may stand for:

• Dora (given name)

Places

United States

• Dora, Alabama
• Dora, Arkansas
• Dora, Missouri
• Dora, New Mexico
• Dora, Oregon
• Dora, Pennsylvania
• Mount Dora, Florida

Other countries

• Lake Dora (Tasmania)
• Lake Dora (Western Australia)
• Dora, Baghdad, Iraq
• Dora, Cyprus
• Dora, Lebanon
• Dura, Hebron, in the Palestinian West Bank
• Dorasan or Mount Dora, a hill in South Korea
• Dora Beel, a lake in Assam (India)
• Dora Baltea river and Dora Riparia river, northern Italy

Entertainment

• Dora the Explorer (character), fictional character in the Dora the Explorer franchise
  • Dora the Explorer, American children's animated television series
  • Dora and the Lost City of Gold, a 2019 live-action movie loosely based on the original series
  • Dora (2024 TV series), an animated reboot of the original series
• Dora (TV series), a 1973 British sitcom series
• Dora (1933 film), a British comedy film
• Dora (2017 film), a Tamil language horror thriller movie
• Dora Mavor Moore Award for Canadian professional theatre
• "Dora", 1984 song by Ambitious Lovers from the album Envy
• Dora, a designated bonus tile used in Japanese Mahjong
• Doraemon, Japanese multimedia franchise
  • Doraemon (character), the main character in the franchise of the same name.
• Dora, fictional tribal chieftains in the 2023 Indian film Salaar
• Dora, fictional character in the webcomic Erfworld
• Dora Bianchi, fictional character in the webcomic Questionable Content
• Dora Spenlow, fictional character in David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
• Dora, one of Lazarus Long's primary spacecraft, and her sentient integral computer, in novels by Robert A. Heinlein
• Nymphadora Tonks, fictional character in the Harry Potter universe
• HRT Dora, Croatian music festival and preselection venue for the Eurovision Song Contest

Military and war

• Dora (artillery), 80cm German railway artillery pieces
• Dora I, and Dora II, German U-boat bases in Trondheim, Norway
• Dora, code name of World War II Soviet intelligence agent Alexander Radó
• Defence of the Realm Act 1914 (DORA), British war legislation adopted in August 1914
• Fw 190 D "Dora", model of Focke-Wulf Fw 190 German fighter aircraft
• Mittelbau-Dora, World War II concentration camp

Transportation

• Dora (sternwheeler), a 1910 steamboat in Oregon
• SS Dora, one of at least two steamships active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

Other uses

• (academia) San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, intending to halt the practice of correlating the journal impact factor to the merits of a specific scientist's contributions
• (astronomy) 668 Dora, main belt asteroid
• (biology) Dual orexin receptor antagonist, a substance that inhibits the activity of both OX₁ and OX₂ receptors
• (biology) Abbreviation for the gene downregulated by activation also known as IGSF6
• (computing) DORA, acronym in computer networking for Discover, Offer, Request, Acknowledge process in the DHCP protocol
• (government) Dora, a medieval title of the feudal landlord in the Telangana region of India
• (government) Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies
• (government) Designated Outdoor Refreshment Areas, a provision of Ohio state law allowing cities to create areas where open containers of alcoholic beverages are permitted; see Open-container law#Cities
• (government) Digital Operational Resilience Act, a cyber-security regulation in the European Union
• (horticulture) Dora (grape), another name for the Italian wine grape Fortana
• (medicine) Dora (case study) of Sigmund Freud, described in A Case of Hysteria
• (medicine) Dual orexin receptor antagonist
• (slang) dumb Dora, a slang term from the 1920s meaning "idiotic woman"

See also

• Doralice
• Dorothea (disambiguation)
• Dorothy (given name)
• Theodora (disambiguation)
• Dorie (disambiguation)
• List of storms named Dora, tropical cyclones worldwide named Dora