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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Of or located on the right side.
  2. adj. Heraldry Situated on or being the side of a shield on the wearer's right and the observer's left.
  3. adj. Obsolete Auspicious; favorable.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Pertaining to or situated on the right hand; right, as opposed to left: as, the dexter side of a shield.
  2. n. In heraldry, that side of the shield which is toward the right when the shield is braced or fitted upon the arm; hence, the side of the field toward the left of the spectator.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Right; on the right-hand side.
  2. n. heraldry The right side of a shield from the wearer's standpoint, and the left side to the viewer.
  3. n. right hand

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Pertaining to, or situated on, the right hand; right, as opposed to sinister, or left.
  2. adj. (Her.) On the right-hand side of a shield, i. e., towards the right hand of its wearer. To a spectator in front, as in a pictorial representation, this would be the left side.
  3. n. One of a breed of small hardy cattle originating from the Kerry breed of Ireland, valuable both for beef and milk. They are usually chiefly black, sometimes red, and somewhat resemble a small shorthorn in build. Called also Dexter Kerry.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. on or starting from the wearer's right

Etymologies

  1. From Latin dexter, from Proto-Indo-European *deks(i)-tero-, from Proto-Indo-European *deks- (“right”) (Pokorny, Watkins, 1969; et al.) Compare Homeric Greek δεξιτερός (dexiteros) "right hand", δεξιός (dexios), "right", Old Church Slavonic деснъ (desnŭ, "right"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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equivalents (2)

Other words for ‘dexter’

  1. dextral
  1. dexter point

same context (24)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. incidatur
  2. paulisper
  3. aestuaret
  4. essent
  1. appetunt
  2. agat
  3. conuenit
  4. venter
  1. lubet
  2. comprehensum
  3. demum
  4. occidit
  1. dicatur
  2. puncto
  3. dicat
  4. utrique
  1. implere
  2. probis
  3. expetendorum
  4. impressum
  1. poscis
  2. definitione
  3. expedito
  4. meque

rhymes (2)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. texter
  1. textor

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. quarter
  2. sinister
  3. dexter chief
  4. gyron
  5. rampant
  6. traverse
  7. triangled
  1. increscent
  2. dexter base
  3. dexter
  4. dextro-
  5. contourn�
  6. canton
  7. chevron
  1. o.
  2. bend
  3. bend sinister
  4. mantellé
  5. purpure
  6. streaming
  7. B and E
  1. fusilly
  2. get
  3. chief
  4. escutcheon
  5. o.d.
  6. natant
  7. passant
  1. tenne
  2. point
  3. relief
  4. right
  5. saltier
  6. side
  7. d
  1. t
  2. vert

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  1. heraldry

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  • chained_bear OED sez: Belonging to or situated on the right side of a person, animal, or object worn on the body; right; esp. in Her. the opposite of sinister.
    The dexter side of a person, animal, shield, etc., is to the left of the spectator facing it. Feb 4, 2007

  • brtom "Sooner have me as I am than some poet chap with bearsgrease, plastery hair lovelock over his dexter optic."
    Joyce, Ulysses, 13 Jan 14, 2007

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