Proper noun
A surname originating as a patronymic.
A male given name from Old English
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?""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 one thing," said she, "and it sounds like a cart rumbling over cobblestones. You'll never get anywhere in the world named Dumbledum Ramsay. Why don't you change it to Dunstan? St. Dunstan was a marvellous person and very much like you - mad about learning, terribly stiff and stern and scowly, and an absolute wizard at withstanding temptation.
Dunstān m
a male given name
What need, Dunstan wondered, could someone have of the storm-filled eggshells? Neil Gaiman
Another one of the show's directors, Garry Dunstan, died after suffering a heart attack whilst out cycling on 22 October 2005. Source: Internet
'Author B', the biographer and former apprentice of St Dunstan, described with vivid memory how the king sucked out the juices of his food, chewed on what was left and spat it out. Source: Internet
Although Dunstan managed to escape, he saw that his life was in danger. Source: Internet
Barlow English Church 1000–1066 pp. 298–299 footnote 7 While at Canterbury he promoted the cult of Dunstan, ordering the writing of the second Life of Dunstan, which Adelard of Ghent composed between 1006 and 1011. Source: Internet
Ælfheah furthered the cult of Dunstan and also encouraged learning. Source: Internet