| toast | | |
| n. (food) | 1. toast | slices of bread that have been toasted. |
| ~ bread, breadstuff, staff of life | food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked. |
| ~ 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. |
| n. (person) | 2. toast | a celebrity who receives much acclaim and attention.; "he was the toast of the town" |
| ~ celebrity, famous person | a widely known person.; "he was a baseball celebrity" |
| n. (person) | 3. goner, toast | a person in desperate straits; someone doomed.; "I'm a goner if this plan doesn't work"; "one mistake and you're toast" |
| ~ desperate | a person who is frightened and in need of help.; "they prey on the hopes of the desperate" |
| n. (food) | 4. pledge, toast | a drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event. |
| ~ drink | a single serving of a beverage.; "I asked for a hot drink"; "likes a drink before dinner" |
| v. (change) | 5. crisp, crispen, toast | make brown and crisp by heating.; "toast bread"; "crisp potatoes" |
| ~ cookery, cooking, preparation | the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat.; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife" |
| ~ heat, heat up | make hot or hotter.; "the sun heats the oceans"; "heat the water on the stove" |
| v. (consumption) | 6. drink, pledge, salute, toast, wassail | propose a toast to.; "Let us toast the birthday girl!"; "Let's drink to the New Year" |
| ~ booze, drink, fuddle | consume alcohol.; "We were up drinking all night" |
| ~ give | propose.; "He gave the first of many toasts at the birthday party" |
| ~ honor, honour, reward | bestow honor or rewards upon.; "Today we honor our soldiers"; "The scout was rewarded for courageous action" |
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