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English
Etymology
From South African Dutch landdrost, from land + drost.
Noun
landdrost (plural landdrosts)
- (now historical) A type of magistrate in South Africa, abolished under the British in 1827.
1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season, Vintage, published 1998, page 160:Remember the words of the young Bibault in the revolt against Van der Stel in 1706: ‘I shall not go. I am an Afrikaner and even if the landdrost kills me or puts me in jail I refuse to hold my tongue.’
2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 82:About ten years before this resistance movement the settlement comprised merely four houses, one of which was used by the landdrost.
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch landdrost. Equivalent to land + drost.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlɑn(t).drɔst/
- Hyphenation: land‧drost
Noun
landdrost m (plural landdrosten)
- (historical) an official and magistrate in rural jurisdictions during the Ancien Régime
- (historical) a magistrate in the Cape Colony
- (historical) the head of an unincorporated area in the Netherlands
- (historical) the head of a department in the Kingdom of Holland
Descendants