TOAST


Meaning of TOAST in English

(~s, ~ing, ~ed)

1.

Toast is bread which has been cut into slices and made brown and crisp by cooking at a high temperature.

...a piece of ~.

N-UNCOUNT

2.

When you ~ something such as bread, you cook it at a high temperature so that it becomes brown and crisp.

Toast the bread lightly on both sides.

...a ~ed sandwich.

VERB: V n, V-ed

3.

When you drink a ~ to someone or something, you drink some wine or another alcoholic drink as a symbolic gesture, in order to show your appreciation of them or to wish them success.

Eleanor and I drank a ~ to Miss Jacobs...

N-COUNT

4.

When you ~ someone or something, you drink a ~ to them.

Party officials and generals ~ed his health...

VERB: V n

5.

If someone is the ~ of a place, they are very popular and greatly admired there, because they have done something very successfully or well.

She was the ~ of Paris.

N-SING: the N of n

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