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Meaning of 'toast' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Toast [ v.]
- Bread dried and browned before a fire, usually in slices; also, a kind of food prepared by putting slices of toasted bread into milk, gravy, etc.
- A lady in honor of whom persons or a company are invited to drink; -- so called because toasts were formerly put into the liquor, as a great delicacy.
- Hence, any person, especially a person of distinction, in honor of whom a health is drunk; hence, also, anything so commemorated; a sentiment, as "The land we live in," "The day we celebrate," etc.
2 . Toast [ v. t.]
- To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread.
- To warm thoroughly; as, to toast the feet.
- To name when a health is proposed to be drunk; to drink to the health, or in honor, of; as, to toast a lady.

Meaning of 'toast' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . toast [ n]
Meaning (1):
- a celebrity who receives much acclaim and attention
Example in sentence:
  • he was the toast of the town
Meaning (2):
- a person in desperate straits; someone doomed
Example in sentence:
  • I'm a goner if this plan doesn't work;
  • one mistake and you're toast
3 . toast [ v]
Meaning (3):
- make brown and crisp by heating
Example in sentence:
  • crisp potatoes;
  • toast bread
Meaning (4):
- propose a toast to
Example in sentence:
  • Let us toast the birthday girl!;
  • Let's drink to the New Year

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