toast

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English[edit]

Toast (bread)

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English tost, from the verb tosten (see below).

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “How did it come to mean a salutation?”)

Noun[edit]

toast (countable and uncountable, plural toasts)

  1. (uncountable) Toasted bread.
    • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, page 23:
      Tea was a very special institution, revolving as it did around the ceremony and worship of Toast. In [public schools] where alcohol, tobacco and drugs were forbidden, it was essential that something should take their place as a powerful and public totem of virility and cool. Toast, for reasons lost in time, was the substance chosen.
    I ate a piece of toast for breakfast.
  2. (countable) A proposed salutation (e.g. to say "cheers") while drinking alcohol.
    At the reception, there were many toasts from the well-wishers.
  3. (countable) A person, group, or notable object to which a salutation with alcohol is made; a person or group held in similar esteem.
    He was the toast of high society.
    • 2014 May 28, John McWhorter, “Saint Maya”, in The New Republic‎[1], →ISSN:
      Josephine Baker did not become the toast of Paris by just shaking her booty for some theater gypsies as a party wound down.
  4. (slang, chiefly US, uncountable) Something that will be no more; something subject to impending destruction, harm or injury.
    If I ever get my hands on the guy that stole my wallet, he’s toast!
  5. (slang, Jamaica) Extemporaneous narrative poem or rap.
  6. (computing, graphical user interface) A transient, informational unclickable pop-up overlay, less interactive than a snackbar.
    • 2012, Nick Lecrenski, Doug Holland, Allen Sanders, Professional Windows 8 Programming:
      With the new Windows Push Notification Service, you can remotely send notifications from a cloud-based web service. In Windows 8, the majority of the Toast messages are standard duration toasts.
Usage notes[edit]

The slang sense of something or someone subject to impending destruction is most commonly found predicatively in the combination be (or become) toast.

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Etymology 2[edit]

From Middle English tosten, from Old French toster (“to roast, grill”), from Latin tostus (“grilled, burnt”), from verb torreō (“to burn, grill”).

Verb[edit]

toast (third-person singular simple present toasts, present participle toasting, simple past and past participle toasted)

  1. To lightly cook by browning via direct exposure to a fire or other heat source.
    We liked to toast marshmallows around the campfire.
  2. To grill, lightly cook by browning specifically under a grill or in a toaster
    Top with cheese and toast under the grill for a few minutes.
  3. To engage in a salutation and/or accompanying raising of glasses while drinking alcohol in honor of someone or something.
    We toasted the happy couple many times over the course of the evening.
  4. To warm thoroughly.
    I toasted my feet by the fire.
  5. (slang, Jamaica) To perform extemporaneous narrative poem or rap.
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Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English toast.

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Noun[edit]

toast m (plural toasts, diminutive toastje n)

  1. (chiefly diminutive) Melba toast

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Estonian[edit]

Noun[edit]

toast

  1. elative singular of tuba

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English toast. Doublet of tôt.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

toast m (plural toasts)

  1. toast (bread)
  2. toast (salutation)

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Italian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Pseudo-anglicism, from English toast.

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Noun[edit]

toast m (invariable)

  1. toasted sandwich

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Further reading[edit]

  • toast in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English toast.

Noun[edit]

toast m (definite singular toasten, indefinite plural toaster, definite plural toastene)

  1. toast (toasted bread)

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Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English toast.

Noun[edit]

toast m (definite singular toasten, indefinite plural toastar, definite plural toastane)

  1. toast (toasted bread)

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Polish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English toast.

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Noun[edit]

toast m inan

  1. toast (proposed salutation)

Declension[edit]

Declension of toast
singular plural
nominative toast toasty
genitive toastu toastów
dative toastowi toastom
accusative toast toasty
instrumental toastem toastami
locative toaście toastach
vocative toaście toasty

Further reading[edit]

  • toast in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • toast in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From French toast.

Noun[edit]

toast n (plural toasturi)

  1. toast (salutation when drinking alcohol)

Declension[edit]

Declension of toast
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) toast toastul (niște) toasturi toasturile
genitive/dative (unui) toast toastului (unor) toasturi toasturilor
vocative toastule toasturilor
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