toast

1. 1.

   make brown and crisp by heating

   “toast bread”

   “crisp potatoes”

   Synonymscrispencrisp

   Broaderheat

   cooking

2. 2.

   propose a toast to

   “Let us toast the birthday girl!”

   “Let's drink to the New Year”

   Synonymsdrinkpledgesalutewassail

   Broaderhonor

   Narrowergive

Other forms of toast

plural

toasts·

past tense

toasted·

present participle

toasting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about toast

What does toast mean?

toast means "slices of bread that have been toasted". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in toast?

toast has 1 syllable: toast. In IPA it is /ˈtoʊst/.

What is another word for toast?

Close synonyms include goner, pledge, crispen, crisp, drink. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is toast a common word?

toast is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.