Dunstan
Dunstan proper noun: a male given name from Old English.
Proper noun
Dunstan
- A male given name from Old English.
- "Let me do one thing more for you," she said. "Let me rename you. How on earth did you ever get yourself called Dunstable?"
"My mother's maiden name," said I. "Lots of people in Canada get landed with their mother's maiden name as a Christian name. But what's wrong with it?"
"It's hard to say, for...1970, Robertson Davies, Fifth Business, →ISBN, pages 96–97
- "Let me do one thing more for you," she said. "Let me rename you. How on earth did you ever get yourself called Dunstable?"
- A surname originating as a patronymic.
Origin of Dunstan
From the name of a 10th century Archbishop of Canterbury, from Old English dunn (“dark”) + stān (“stone”).
Questions about Dunstan
- What does Dunstan mean?
- Dunstan means a male given name from Old English.
- What part of speech is Dunstan?
- Dunstan is a proper noun.
Words near Dunstan in the dictionary
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