TOAST
What does "TOAST" mean?
Bread browned by heat, or a call to raise glasses in honor of someone.
Meanings
- Sliced bread browned on both sides by heat. She spread butter on warm toast for breakfast.
- A call to a gathering to raise their glasses and drink in honor of a person or thing. He stood and proposed a toast to the newlyweds.
- To brown food by exposure to heat. Toast the almonds until they smell nutty.
- To drink in honor of someone or something. We toasted the new year at midnight.
- Doomed, ruined, or finished. If the boss finds out, we're toast. informal
Did you know?
- When you 'raise a toast', you echo an old habit of dropping a piece of spiced toasted bread into wine to soak up the acidity and add flavor - the honoree was the metaphorical bread that made the drink sweet.
Word origin
From Latin 'tostus', 'parched, roasted', via Old French 'toster'; the drinking sense arose because a piece of spiced toast was once floated in a cup of wine to flavor it.
Remember it
TOAST = 'To A Special Treat' - what you say when you lift a glass.
A little poem
We charred the bread and charred the year with wine,
and called the burning both a toast, and fine.
couplet
Wordplay
- Why is bread the best at parties? Because it knows how to make a toast.
What it teaches
Heat ruins or perfects the same slice; what burns you can be the thing that makes you golden.
Quick facts
What does TOAST mean?
Bread browned by heat, or a call to raise glasses in honor of someone.
Is TOAST a valid word?
Yes — TOAST is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is TOAST?
TOAST has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does TOAST come from?
From Latin 'tostus', 'parched, roasted', via Old French 'toster'; the drinking sense arose because a piece of spiced toast was once floated in a cup of wine to flavor it.
What can TOAST teach us?
Heat ruins or perfects the same slice; what burns you can be the thing that makes you golden.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.