TOAST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does toast mean? 

• TOAST (noun)
  The noun TOAST has 4 senses:

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

4. a drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event

  Familiarity information: TOAST used as a noun is uncommon.

• TOAST (verb)
  The verb TOAST has 2 senses:

1. make brown and crisp by heating

2. propose a toast to

  Familiarity information: TOAST used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOAST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Slices of bread that have been toasted

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("toast" is a kind of...):

bread; breadstuff; staff of life (food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "toast"):

cinnamon toast (buttered toast with sugar and cinnamon (and nutmeg and grated lemon peel))

orange toast (buttered toast with sugar and grated orange rind and a little orange juice)

Melba toast (very thin crisp brown toast)

Brussels biscuit; rusk; twice-baked bread; zwieback (slice of sweet raised bread baked again until it is brown and hard and crisp)

Derivation:

toast (make brown and crisp by heating)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A celebrity who receives much acclaim and attention

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Context example:

he was the toast of the town

Hypernyms ("toast" is a kind of...):

celebrity; famous person (a widely known person)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A person in desperate straits; someone doomed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

goner; toast

Context example:

one mistake and you're toast

Hypernyms ("toast" is a kind of...):

desperate (a person who is frightened and in need of help)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

pledge; toast

Hypernyms ("toast" is a kind of...):

drink (a single serving of a beverage)

Derivation:

toast (propose a toast to)

• TOAST (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they toast    ... he / she / it toasts   
Past simple: toasted   
Past participle: toasted   
-ing form: toasting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make brown and crisp by heating

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

crisp; crispen; toast

Context example:

crisp potatoes

Hypernyms (to "toast" is one way to...):

heat; heat up (make hot or hotter)

Domain category:

cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

toast (slices of bread that have been toasted)

toaster (a kitchen appliance (usually electric) for toasting bread)

toasting (cooking to a brown crispiness over a fire or on a grill)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Propose a toast to

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

drink; pledge; salute; toast; wassail

Context example:

Let's drink to the New Year

Hypernyms (to "toast" is one way to...):

honor; honour; reward (bestow honor or rewards upon)

"Toast" entails doing...:

booze; drink; fuddle; hit the bottle (consume alcohol)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "toast"):

give (propose)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

toast (a drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event)

 Context examples 

She had seen Agnes, she told me while she was toasting.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A toast heartily given by the good man, who never forgot how much he owed her, and quietly drunk by the boys, who had been taught to keep her memory green.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The lean man with the weak knees is General Scott who lives upon toast and water and has won £200,000 at whist.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Look! You are shivering. Don’t deny it; you are. And here I have been lying warm as toast.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed into the room.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Hannah had brought me some gruel and dry toast, about, as I supposed, the dinner-hour.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese—toasted, mostly—and woke up again, and here I were.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I ground and beat them between two stones; then took water, and made them into a paste or cake, which I toasted at the fire and eat warm with milk.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

And where does Martin Eden and the work Martin Eden performed come in in all this? he asked himself plaintively, then arose to respond cleverly and wittily to a clever and witty toast.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

As soon as the cook went away, Cat-skin heated the king’s soup, and toasted a slice of bread first, as nicely as ever she could; and when it was ready, she went and looked in the cabin for her little golden ring, and put it into the dish in which the soup was.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)