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Toast

Toast Meaning & Definition
Toast Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Toast?

[n] slices of bread that have been toasted
[n] a drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event
[v] make brown and crisp by heating; "toast bread"
[v] propose a toast to; "Let us toast the birthday girl!"; "Let's drink to the New Year"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Toast: crisp | drink | pledge | pledge | salute | wassail

Related Terms | Find terms related to Toast:

See Also | booze | bread | breadstuff | Brussels biscuit | cinnamon toast | drink | fuddle | give | heat | heat up | honor | honour | Melba toast | orange toast | reward | rusk | staff of life | twice-baked bread | zwieback

Toast In Webster's Dictionary

\Toast\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Toasted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Toasting}.] [OF. toster to roast, toast, fr. L. torrere, tostum, to parch, roast. See {Torrid}.] 1. To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread. 2. To warm thoroughly; as, to toast the feet. 3. To name when a health is proposed to be drunk; to drink to the health, or in honor, of; as, to toast a lady.
\Toast\, n. [OF. toste, or tost['e]e, toasted bread. See {Toast}, v.] 1. Bread dried and browned before a fire, usually in slices; also, a kind of food prepared by putting slices of toasted bread into milk, gravy, etc. My sober evening let the tankard bless, With toast embrowned, and fragrant nutmeg fraught. --T. Warton. 2. A lady in honor of whom persons or a company are invited to drink; -- so called because toasts were formerly put into the liquor, as a great delicacy. It now came to the time of Mr. Jones to give a toast . . . who could not refrain from mentioning his dear Sophia. --Fielding. 3. Hence, any person, especially a person of distinction, in honor of whom a health is drunk; hence, also, anything so commemorated; a sentiment, as ``The land we live in,'' ``The day we celebrate,'' etc. {Toast rack}, a small rack or stand for a table, having partitions for holding slices of dry toast.

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