(~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 ~.
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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...
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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