Frost

English, German, Swedish and Danish surname, all from the noun frost.

• Rhymes: -ɒst
• Rhymes: -ɔːst

Frost (countable and uncountable, plural Frosts)

1. A surname.
   • 2025 February 7, Alex Baumhardt, “Oregon Rep. Bonamici among electeds inexplicably locked out of U.S. Education Department”, in Oregon Capital Chronicle‎^[1], archived from the original on 5 March 2025:

     A video filmed and shared on the social media site Bluesky by Florida Congressman Maxwell Frost, also a Democrat, shows Hairfield outside the building and several officers from the federal Department of Homeland Security behind the doors, labeled “All Access Entrance.”

2. A number of places in the United States:
   1. An unincorporated community in Livingston Parish, Louisiana.
   2. A township in Clare County, Michigan.
   3. A minor city in Faribault County, Minnesota.
   4. An unincorporated community in Athens County, Ohio.
   5. A minor city in Navarro County, Texas.
   6. An unincorporated community in Pocahontas County, West Virginia.

• Frostian

• forts, frots

From Middle High German vrost, from Old High German frost, from Proto-West Germanic *frost. Cognate with Dutch vorst, English frost, Icelandic frost.

• IPA^(key): /frɔst/
  • (Austria and Switzerland) IPA^(key): [frɔst]
  • (Germany) IPA^(key): [fʁɔst]

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Frost m (strong, genitive Frostes or Frosts, plural Fröste)

1. frost; freezing weather (weather conditions below 0 °C)
2. frost; ice; all the natural phenomena caused by such weather collectively
3. a sensation of cold, especially due to illness

• Though Frost is commonly used for layers of ice or hard snow, it does not specifically refer to the kind of minute ice crystals known as frost in English. For that see Reif.

• “Frost” in Duden online
• “Frost”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[2] (in German)

From Middle Low German vrost, from Old Saxon frost, from Proto-West Germanic *frost, from Proto-Germanic *frustaz.

Frost m

1. frost

• frostijch