TOAST


Meaning of TOAST in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ toʊst ]

( toasts, toasting, toasted)

1.

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

...a piece of toast.

N-UNCOUNT

2.

When you toast 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 toasted sandwich.

VERB : V n , V-ed

3.

When you drink a toast 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 toast to Miss Jacobs...

N-COUNT

4.

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

Party officials and generals toasted his health...

VERB : V n

5.

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

She was the toast of Paris.

N-SING : the N of n

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