Dysart

Meaning

Proper Noun

• former town and royal burgh (with a small harbour) Fife (council area) Scotland (constituent country), which was merged with Kirkcaldy in 1930 .
• A Scottish earldom.

Origin

• Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic dìseart ("hermit's cell, hermitage"), itself from Latin desertum ("desert, waste, solitary spot").