Drost

Drost (plural Drosts)

1. A surname.

• 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.

• Dorts, dorts, dtors, trods

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.

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

Drost

1. an island of North Holland, Netherlands
2. a surname

• Droste, Drossart (obsolete)

From Middle Low German droste, from earlier drossete, drotsēte, drotsāte. Cognate with Dutch drost and Middle High German truhtsæze, whence the doublet Truchsess (“steward of a princely household, sewer”). See there for more.

• IPA^(key): /dʁɔst/
• Rhymes: -ɔst

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

1. (Northern Germany, historical) reeve, sheriff, bailiff (official in charge of a rural district)

   Synonyms: Amtshauptmann, Landvogt

• Drostei
• Drostenamt

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

Variant of Drozd.

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

Drost m pers

1. a male surname

Drost f (indeclinable)

1. a female surname

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