dexter
see also: Dexter
Pronunciation
Dexter
Pronunciation
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see also: Dexter
Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈdɛkstə/
dexter (not comparable)
- Right; on the right-hand side.
- 1911, Saki, ‘The Match-Maker’, The Chronicles of Clovis:
- Clovis wiped the trace of Turkish coffee and the beginnings of a smile from his lips, and slowly lowered his dexter eyelid.
- 1911, Saki, ‘The Match-Maker’, The Chronicles of Clovis:
- German: dexter, rechts, rechtsseitig
- Portuguese: destro
dexter (plural dexters)
- (heraldry) The right side of a shield from the wearer's standpoint, and the left side to the viewer.
- The right hand.
Dexter
Pronunciation
- (America) IPA: /ˈdɛkstɚ/
- Surname for a female dyer.
- Any of a number of places in the U.S.A. and Canada, named for persons with the surname.
- A male given name.
- 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.
- 1969 Coretta Scott King, My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, pages 204-205:
- French: Dexter
- Portuguese: Dexter
- Russian: Де́кстер
dexter (plural dexters)
- 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.
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