Dexter
See also: dexter
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- (surname): Dyster
Etymology edit
Variant of Dyster.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Dexter
- A surname originating as an occupation for a female dyer.
- Any of a number of places in the United States and Canada, named for persons with the surname.
- A town in Chaves County, New Mexico, United States.
- A census-designated place in Lane County, Oregon, United States.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- 1969, Coretta Scott King, My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, pages 204–205:
- I was in Atlanta with our three children — our second son, Dexter, named for our beloved church in Montgomery, had been born in January, and was still an infant.
Translations edit
male given name
Noun edit
Dexter (plural Dexters)
Cebuano edit
Etymology edit
Proper noun edit
Dexter
- a male given name from English
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English Dexter. Doublet of destro.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Dexter m
- a male given name from English, equivalent to English Dexter