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Toast   /toʊst/   Listen
Toast

noun
1.
Slices of bread that have been toasted.
2.
A celebrity who receives much acclaim and attention.
3.
A person in desperate straits; someone doomed.  Synonym: goner.  "One mistake and you're toast"
4.
A drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event.  Synonym: pledge.
verb
(past & past part. toasted; pres. part. toasting)
1.
Make brown and crisp by heating.  Synonyms: crisp, crispen.  "Crisp potatoes"
2.
Propose a toast to.  Synonyms: drink, pledge, salute, wassail.  "Let's drink to the New Year"



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"Toast" Quotes from Famous Books



... dumb animal, when there were so many deserving talking squirrels in the room, and especially himself. I have never had such an amusing evening. Even the quaint and rather solemn touch pleased me, of the first toast being said between two freshly lighted candles, to those members who were dead. The club dates from Colonial times, too, so there must have been a number of them, and if their spirits were there in the room they must have seen as merry a party as ...
— Elizabeth Visits America • Elinor Glyn
... heels of the tea-things came the Dominie, another dear old friend of six weeks' standing; and while the doctor sang "Jock o' Hazledean" with such irresistible charm that we all longed to elope with somebody on the instant, Salemina dispensed buttered toast, marmalade sandwiches, and the fragrant cup. By this time we were thoroughly cosy, and Mr. Macdonald made himself and us very much at home by stirring the fire; whereupon Francesca embarrassed him by begging him not to touch ...
— Penelope's Progress - Being Such Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton As Relate to Her Experiences in Scotland • Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
... it till to-morrow, and now, in high good-humor and increasing confidence in the coming good-fortune, he helped Blasi and Jost to empty the bowl, in a toast to the success ...
— Veronica And Other Friends - Two Stories For Children • Johanna (Heusser) Spyri
... down that morning, everything was bright and comfortable in the sitting-room. A clear fire burned in the grate; the toast and coffee sent up an inviting odor; and the table was spread with the whitest of linen, on which the cups and saucers were neatly arranged. The morning paper was drying on a chair by the fire, and over all, flickered the glorious sunshine, ...
— May Brooke • Anna H. Dorsey
... clouded. Ellis approached her with attempts at cheerful conversation; but she was not in the mood to feel interested in any of the topics he introduced. The tea hour passed with little of favourable promise. The toast was badly made, and the chocolate not half boiled. Mrs. Ellis was annoyed, and scolded the cook, in the presence of her husband, soundly; thus depriving him of the little appetite with which he had come to the table. Gradually the unhappy man ...
— The Two Wives - or, Lost and Won • T. S. Arthur


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