Dunstan Name Meaning & Origin
Dunstan
Pronunciation: DUHN-stin (key)
Origin of the name Dunstan:
Compount name derived from the Old English elements dun (dark) and stān (stone). The name was borne by St. Dunstan (c. 924-88), and English prelate and archbishop of Canterbury.
From A World of Baby Names by Teresa Norman.
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From Old English dunn 'dark, brown' + stan 'stone'.
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St. Dunstan, English bishop and political adviser to the Saxon kings. He was successively Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, Bishop of Worcester, Bishop of London, and Archbishop of Canterbury, later canonized as a saint.
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Lake Dunstan in New Zealand.
Dunstan Cass, greedy villain in the novel Silas Marner.
"Dunstan", a historical novel about the 10th-century saint by British author Conn Iggulden.
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