| NOUN | food | toast | slices of bread that have been toasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| person | toast | a celebrity who receives much acclaim and attention | |
| person | toast, goner | a person in desperate straits | |
| food | toast, pledge | a drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event | |
| VERB | change | toast, crispen, crisp | make brown and crisp by heating |
| consumption | toast, drink, pledge, salute, wassail | propose a toast to |
| Sounds | tow'st | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | almost ... westernmost: 30 rhymes with owst... | |
| Meaning | Slices of bread that have been toasted. | |
|---|---|---|
| Narrower | Melba toast | Very thin crisp brown toast |
| 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 | |
| zwieback, rusk, Brussels biscuit, twice-baked bread | Slice of sweet raised bread baked again until it is brown and hard and crisp | |
| Broader | bread, breadstuff, staff of life | Food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked |
| Spanish | brindis, pan tostado, torrada, tostada | |
| Catalan | brindis, pa torrat, torrada | |
| Verbs | toast | make brown and crisp by heating |
| Meaning | A celebrity who receives much acclaim and attention. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "he was the toast of the town" | |
| Broader | celebrity, famous person | A widely known person |
| Meaning | A person in desperate straits; someone doomed. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "one mistake and you're toast" | |
| Synonym | goner | |
| Broader | desperate | A person who is frightened and in need of help |
| Meaning | A drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonym | pledge | |
| Broader | drink | A single serving of a beverage |
| Spanish | brindis | |
| Catalan | brindis | |
| Verbs | toast | propose a toast to |
| Meaning | make brown and crisp by heating. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Example | "toast bread" | |
| Synonyms | crispen, crisp | |
| Category | cooking, cookery, preparation | The act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat |
| Broader | heat, heat up | make hot or hotter |
| Spanish | tostar | |
| Catalan | torrar-se, torrar | |
| Nouns | toast | slices of bread that have been toasted |
| toaster | a kitchen appliance (usually electric) for toasting bread | |
| toasting | cooking to a brown crispiness over a fire or on a grill | |
| Meaning | Propose a toast to. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody | |
| Example | "Let us toast the birthday girl!" | |
| Synonyms | drink, pledge, salute, wassail | |
| Entails | hit the bottle, drink, booze, fuddle | consume alcohol |
| Narrower | give | Propose |
| Broader | honor, honour, reward | bestow honor or rewards upon |
| Spanish | beber, brindar, prometer, saludar | |
| Catalan | brindar per, proposar un brindis, saludar | |
| Nouns | toast | a drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event |
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