A compact metasurface-based circularly polarized (CP) dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) is proposed with wideband characteristics. The antenna forms a very simple structure, composed of a rectangular DR, a single coaxial probe, and plus-shaped unit cells-based metasurface. The metasurface is realized on a grounded FR-4 substrate. Next, a rectangular DR is loaded centrally over the metasurface. The DR is fed with a perturbed probe feed at an appropriate angle of ( =29°), along the diagonal line. Thus, a novel hybrid technique involving the angle of feed location from the center of DR, and the N N unit cells-based metasurface is utilized for generating a wideband CP radiation. The resonance from the rectangular DR and surface waves along the 7 plus-shaped unit cells-based metasurface is exploited to achieve a wide 3-dB axial ratio (AR) and impedance matching bandwidth. The fabricated