toast

toast
toast1
/tohst/, n.
1. sliced bread that has been browned by dry heat.
2. be toast, Slang. to be doomed, ruined, or in trouble: If you're late to work again, you're toast!
v.t.
3. to brown, as bread or cheese, by exposure to heat.
4. to heat or warm thoroughly at a fire: She toasted her feet at the fireplace.
v.i.
5. to become toasted.
[1350-1400; (v.) ME to(o)sten < MF toster < VL *tostare, deriv. of L tostus ( < *torstos), ptp. of torrere to parch, roast, from a base *tors-, akin to Goth thaursus, ON thurr dry; (n.) late ME to(o)ste, deriv. of the v.; see TORRID, THIRST]
toast2
/tohst/, n.
1. a salutation or a few words of congratulation, good wishes, appreciation, remembrance, etc., uttered immediately before drinking to a person, event, etc.
2. a person, event, sentiment, or the like, in honor of whom another or others raise their glasses in salutation and then drink.
3. an act or instance of thus drinking: They drank a toast to the queen.
4. a call on another or others to drink to some person or thing.
5. a person who is celebrated as with the spirited homage of a toast: She was the toast of five continents.
v.t.
6. to drink to the health of or in honor of; propose a toast to or in honor of.
7. to propose as a toast.
v.i.
8. to propose or drink a toast.
[1690-1700; fig. use of TOAST1 (n.); the name of a lady so honored was said to give flavor to the drink comparable to that given by spiced toast]

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Synonyms:
(in order to make more palatable, as bread or cheese), / (thoroughly), , (in drinking), / , , , , , (uttered at a convivial meeting)


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