toast: Meaning and Definition of

toast

1. sliced bread that has been browned by dry heat.

1. to brown, as bread or cheese, by exposure to heat.
2. to heat or warm thoroughly at a fire: She toasted her feet at the fireplace.

1. to become toasted.

toast

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.

1. to drink to the health of or in honor of; propose a toast to or in honor of.
2. to propose as a toast.

1. to propose or drink a toast.