toast

/toʊst/

/təʊst/

Other forms: toasted; toasts; toasting

What do you get when you heat a piece of bread long enough for it to become golden-brown on both sides? Congratulations, you've made a piece of toast!

To make toast, you simply toast bread, or heat it on a grill, in a toaster, or in an oven. People put all kinds of things on toast, from butter to jam to baked beans. Making or giving a toast is another thing all together — this kind of toast is a brief speech given while raising glasses and drinking together: "A toast to the birthday girl!" And if you are so highly regarded in a particular area that you're almost famous, you're "the toast of the town."

Definitions of toast

1. noun

   slices of bread that have been toasted
   types:

   cinnamon toast

   buttered toast with sugar and cinnamon (and nutmeg and grated lemon peel)

   orange toast

   buttered toast with sugar and grated orange rind and a little orange juice

   Melba toast

   very thin crisp brown toast

   Brussels biscuit, rusk, twice-baked bread, zwieback

   slice of sweet raised bread baked again until it is brown and hard and crisp

   type of:

   bread, breadstuff, staff of life

   food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked
2. verb

   make brown and crisp by heating
   “toast bread”

   synonyms: crisp, crispen

   type of:

   heat, heat up

   make hot or hotter
3. noun

   a drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event
   synonyms: pledge

   type of:

   drink

   a single serving of a beverage
4. noun

   a celebrity who receives much acclaim and attention
   “he was the toast of the town”

   type of:

   celebrity, famous person

   a widely known person
5. verb

   propose a toast to
   “Let us toast the birthday girl!”

   synonyms: drink, pledge, salute, wassail

   types:

   give

   propose

   type of:

   honor, honour, reward

   bestow honor or rewards upon
6. noun

   a person in desperate straits; someone doomed
   “one mistake and you're toast”

   synonyms: goner

   type of:

   desperate

   a person who is frightened and in need of help