toast
UK/təʊst//toʊst/
toast noun: bread that has been toasted (cooked lightly by browning).
Noun
toast (countable and uncountable, plural toasts)
- Bread that has been toasted (cooked lightly by browning).
- I ate a piece of toast for breakfast.
- This toast and marmalade tastes heavenly.
- A proposed salutation (e.g. saying "cheers") while drinking alcohol.
- At the reception, there were many toasts from the well-wishers.
- The evening meal was "a repast of most recherché description," involving an endless series of toasts to almost everybody (with the notable exception of the other railway already serving Brentford, which came in for some hard knocks from various speakers).1960 February, R. K. Kirkland, “The Great Western and Brentford Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 79
- Synonyms:
- pledge
- A person, group, or notable object to which a salutation with alcohol is made; a person or group held in similar esteem.
- He was the toast of high society.
- Josephine Baker did not become the toast of Paris by just shaking her booty for some theater gypsies as a party wound down.2014 May 28, John McWhorter, “Saint Maya”, in The New Republic, →ISSN
- Something that is irreparably damaged or used up, especially when destroyed by heat or fire; something which has been burnt to a crisp or incinerated.
- The metal frame survived the fire, but the plastic and rubber bits are toast.
- Something that will be no more; something subject to impending destruction, harm or injury.
- to become/be toast
- If I ever get my hands on the guy that stole my wallet, he’s toast!
- A type of extemporaneous narrative poem or rap.
- An old toast ("a lively fellow who drinks excessively").
- A transient, informational pop-up overlay, less interactive than a snackbar.
- With the new Windows Push Notification Service, you can remotely send notifications from a cloud-based web service. In Windows 8, the majority of the Toast messages are standard duration toasts.2012, Nick Lecrenski, Doug Holland, Allen Sanders, Professional Windows 8 Programming
- A piece of toast.
- Go, fetch me a quart of Sacke, put a toſt in't.c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
Verb
toast (third-person singular simple present toasts, present participle toasting, simple past and past participle toasted)
- To cook lightly by browning by means of direct exposure to a fire or other heat source.
- We used to enjoy toasting marshmallows around the campfire.
- To cook lightly by browning under a grill or in a toaster; to grill.
- Top with cheese and toast under the grill for a few minutes.
- To engage in a salutation, often with raising of the drinking vessel, while drinking an alcoholic beverage in honor of someone or something.
- We toasted the happy couple many times over the course of the evening.
- You all have achieved so much together thus far, so I think that deserves a toast! Let's toast!
- To warm thoroughly.
- I toasted my feet by the fire.
- To perform an extemporaneous narrative poem or rap.
- Toasting over a record does more than change the way that record is perceived by the audience: it creates a new piece of music with joint creative authorship, although the law does not support this characterization.2014, Richard James Burgess, The History of Music Production, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 168
Proper noun capitalized: TOAST
TOAST
toast meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
toast in Hindi
- टोस्ट
toast in Tamil
- டோஸ்ட்
toast in Marathi
- टोस्ट
toast in Urdu
- ٹوسٹ
More languagesFewer languages
- toast in Bengali
- টোস্ট
- toast in Telugu
- టోస్ట్
- toast in Malayalam
- ടോസ്റ്റ്
- toast in Kannada
- ಟೋಸ್ಟ್
- toast in Punjabi
- ਟੋਸਟ
- toast in Gujarati
- ટોસ્ટ
- toast in Odia
- ଟୋଷ୍ଟ, ଟୋଷ୍ଟ୍
- toast in Nepali
- टोस्ट, टोष्ट
- toast in Malay
- roti bakar, roti panggang, bakar
- toast in Indonesian
- roti panggang, bersulang
- toast in Persian
- نان تست nân-e tost
- toast in Thai
- ขนมปังปิ้ง kànŏm bpang bpîng, ปิ้ง bpîng, ดื่มอวยพร dèum uay pon, ชนแก้ว chon gâew
- toast in Vietnamese
- bánh mì nướng
Examples of toast in a sentence
- You are going to be toast if you don't submit your school project on time.
- Tea was a very special institution, revolving as it did around the ceremony and worship of Toast.1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, page 23:
- I'm gonna turn this guy into toast." By the time the scene was shot, the filmmakers had decided the human form of Gozer should be played by the model Slavitza Jovan.Ben Zimmer (22 June 2023), “'Toast': From Busting Ghosts to Burning Careers”, in The Wall Street Journal, New York, N.Y.: Dow Jones &...
- Hegseth] said the Iranian regime “are toast, and they know it, or at least soon enough, they will know it.”2026 March 4, Joseph Gedeon, quoting Pete Hegseth, “Pete Hegseth says Iranian regime is ‘toast’ as US expands military offensive”, in The...
Synonyms of toast
Forms of toast
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | toasts |
| alternative form | tost |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | toasts |
| present participle | toasting |
| past participle | toasted |
| past | toasted |
Origin of toast
From Middle English tost, from the verb tosten (see below). Etymology 1 sense 3 is according to the Oxford English Dictionary a figurative application of etymology 1 sense 1 dating to 1674. It began as an epithet for a lady being supposed to flavour a bumper like a spiced toast placed in that drink. (In this context, a bumper is a drinking vessel filled to the brim.)
From Middle English tosten, from Old French toster (“to roast, grill”), from Late Latin tostō, -āre, frequentative of torreō (“to burn, grill”) from its perfect passive participle tostus (“grilled, burnt”).
Words formed from toast
- anchovy toast
- avocado toast
- beans on toast
- brick toast
- burn one's toast
- burnt toast theory
- cheese on toast
- comatoast
- freedom toast
- French toast
- garlic toast
- have someone on toast
- honey toast
- kaya toast
- loyal toast
- milktoast
- milk toast
- pizza toast
- prawn toast
- Rocky Mountain toast
- Shibuya toast
- shit on toast
- shrimp toast
- sunshine toast
- tea and toast syndrome
- Texas toast
- tiger toast
- toastcrumb
- toastee
- toaster
- toast Hawaii
- toastie
- toastless
- toastlike
- toastmaker
- toastmaster
- toastmistress
- toast notification
- toast of the town
- toast point
- toast rack
- toast sandwich
- toast water
- tongue toast
- warm as toast
- watched toast never burns
- whatever butters your toast
- retoast
- toastable
- toast up
Phrases with toast
- old toast
- Melba toast
- toast racks
- toast points
- toast sandwiches
- Wet Toast Eagles
- burns one's toast
- burnt one's toast
- burned one's toast
- burning one's toast
- toast notifications
- had someone on toast
2 more phrasesFewer phrases
Words that rhyme with toast
12 more rhymesFewer rhymes
Questions about toast
- What does toast mean?
- Toast means bread that has been toasted (cooked lightly by browning).
- What is toast in Hindi?
- Toast in Hindi is टोस्ट. See Toast meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use toast in a sentence?
- You are going to be toast if you don't submit your school project on time.
- What part of speech is toast?
- Toast can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce toast?
- Toast is pronounced /təʊst/ (UK).
- What is the plural of toast?
- The plural of toast is toasts.
Words near toast in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: toast (page history and authors); TOAST (page history and authors); toast (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); toast (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); toast (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); toast (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); toast (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); toast (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); toast (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); toast (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); toast (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); toast (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); toast (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); toast (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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