Definition of "Dexter"

Dexter

/ˈdɛkstɚ/

proper noun
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.
  Quotations
  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
noun
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.