Dictionary Entry
toast
toast is a 5-letter English word with 12 senses as transitive verb, verb, and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 5 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread.
- 2transitive verb
To warm thoroughly; as, to toast the feet.
- 3transitive verb
To name when a health is proposed to be drunk; to drink to the health, or in honor, of; as, to toast a lady.
- 4verb
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.
- 5verb
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.
- 6verb
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.
- 7noun
slices of bread that have been toasted
- 8noun
a drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event
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- 9noun
a person in desperate straits; someone doomed
"I'm a goner if this plan doesn't work"
"one mistake and you're toast"
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- 10noun
a celebrity who receives much acclaim and attention
"he was the toast of the town"
- 11verb
make brown and crisp by heating
"toast bread"
"crisp potatoes"
- 12verb
propose a toast to
"Let us toast the birthday girl!"
"Let's drink to the New Year"
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