Toast (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun
  1. sliced bread that has been browned by dry heat.
verb (used with object)
  1. to brown, as bread or cheese, by exposure to heat.
  2. to heat or warm thoroughly at a fire: She toasted her feet at the fireplace.
verb (used without object)
  1. to become toasted.
Idioms
  1. to be doomed, ruined, or in trouble: If you're late to work again, you're toast!
noun
  1. a salutation or a few words of congratulation, good wishes, appreciation, remembrance, etc., uttered immediately before drinking to a person, event, etc.
  2. a person, event, sentiment, or the like, in honor of whom another or others raise their glasses in salutation and then drink.
  3. an act or instance of thus drinking: They drank a toast to the queen.
  4. a call on another or others to drink to some person or thing.
  5. a person who is celebrated as with the spirited homage of a toast: She was the toast of five continents.
verb (used with object)
  1. to drink to the health of or in honor of; propose a toast to or in honor of.
  2. to propose as a toast.
verb (used without object)
  1. to propose or drink a toast.
noun
  1. sliced bread browned by exposure to heat, usually under a grill, over a fire, or in a toaster
  2. to face certain destruction or defeat
verb
  1. to brown under a grill or over a fire
  2. to warm or be warmed in a similar manner
noun
  1. a tribute or proposal of health, success, etc, given to a person or thing by a company of people and marked by raising glasses and drinking together
  2. a person or thing honoured by such a tribute or proposal
  3. (esp formerly) an attractive woman to whom such tributes are frequently made
verb
  1. to propose or drink a toast to (a person or thing)
  2. to add vocal effects to a prerecorded track: a disc-jockey technique
Toast (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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