Drost

See also: drost

English

Proper noun

Drost (plural Drosts)

1. A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Drost is the 11355^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2778 individuals. Drost is most common among White (95.75%) individuals.

Anagrams

• Dorts, dorts, dtors, trods

Dutch

Etymology

From drost.

The island is indirectly named after poet and playwright Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (1581 - 1647), who occupied the position of drost of nearby Muiden. See also Hooft and Warenar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /drɔst/
• Hyphenation: Drost
• Rhymes: -ɔst
• Homophone: drost

Proper noun

Drost

1. An island in Noord-Holland, Netherlands.
2. a surname

German

Alternative forms

• Droste, Drossart

Etymology

From Middle Low German drossete, drotsēte, drotsāte, the Middle Low German equivalent to Middle High German truhtsæze. Cognate with Dutch drost. See Truchsess for further information. See also Middle Dutch drutsate and Middle Low German drosetambacht.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʁɔst/
• Rhymes: -ɔst

Noun

Drost m (strong, genitive Drostes or Drosts, plural Droste)

1. (Northern Germany, historical, archaic) steward, reeve

   Synonym: Truchsess

Declension

Declension of Drost [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Drost	die	Droste
genitive	eines	des	Drostes, Drosts	der	Droste
dative	einem	dem	Drost, Droste1	den	Drosten
accusative	einen	den	Drost	die	Droste

¹Now rare, see notes.

Derived terms

• Drostei

Further reading

• Drost on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• “Drost” in Duden online
• “Drost” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Polish

Etymology

Variant of Polish Drozd or from German Droste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /drɔst/
• Rhymes: -ɔst
• Syllabification: Drost
• Homophones: drozd, Drozd

Proper noun

Drost m pers

1. a male surname

Declension

Declension of Drost

	singular	plural
nominative	Drost	Drostowie
genitive	Drosta	Drostów
dative	Drostowi	Drostom
accusative	Drosta	Drostów
instrumental	Drostem	Drostami
locative	Droście	Drostach
vocative	Droście	Drostowie

Proper noun

Drost f (indeclinable)

1. a female surname

Further reading

• “Drost”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland], 2022