Dexter

• (surname): Dyster

Variant of Dyster.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛkstɚ/

Dexter

1. A surname originating as an occupation for a female dyer.
2. Any of a number of places in the United States and Canada, named for persons with the surname.
   1. A town in Chaves County, New Mexico, United States.
   2. A census-designated place in Lane County, Oregon, United States.
3. 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.

Dexter (plural Dexters)

1. One of a breed of small hardy cattle originating from the Kerry breed of Ireland, valuable for beef and milk. They are usually chiefly black, sometimes red, and somewhat resemble a small shorthorn in build.

From English Dexter.

Dexter

1. a male given name from English

Unadapted borrowing from English Dexter. Doublet of destro.

Dexter m

1. a male given name from English, equivalent to English Dexter