toast (toasts plural & 3rd person present) (toasting present participle) (toasted past tense & past participle )
1 n-uncount Toast is bread which has been cut into slices and made brown and crisp by cooking at a high temperature.
...a piece of toast.
2 verb When you toast something such as bread, you cook it at a high temperature so that it becomes brown and crisp.
Toast the bread lightly on both sides. V n
...a toasted sandwich. V-ed
3 n-count When you drink a toast to someone or something, you drink some wine or another alcoholic drink as a symbolic gesture, in order to show your appreciation of them or to wish them success.
Eleanor and I drank a toast to Miss Jacobs...
4 verb When you toast someone or something, you drink a toast to them.
Party officials and generals toasted his health... V n
5 n-sing If someone is the toast of a place, they are very popular and greatly admired there, because they have done something very successfully or well.
the N of n
She was the toast of Paris.