Dot
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Origin of the name Dorothy:
A borrowing of the Greek Dōrothea, a compound name composed of the elements dōron (gift) and theos (God): hence, "gift of God."
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Dot, a character from the animated television show Animaniacs
Dot Branning, character on the television show EastEnders
Dot Matrix, character on the television series ReBoot
Dot and Dash, an animated girl and animated boy appearing in the PBS Kids station identification
Dot and the Kangaroo, a children's book by Ethel C. Pedley, written in 1899
Dot, A Drama in Three Acts, an 1859 stage adaption of the book The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens
Little Dot, a comic book character
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