# toast
## English
### Alternative forms

* (obsolete) tost

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /təʊst/
* (General American) IPA: /toʊst/
* (General Australian) IPA: /təʉst/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -əʊst

### Etymology 1

From Middle English tost, from the verb tosten (see below).
(person who is honored with a drink): First appears in print at the very end of the 17th century. The conventional assumption is that the use is metaphorical, “the name of a lady being supposed to flavour a drink like a spiced toast.” This is pure speculation, however, as the origin of the sense remains obscure.
(something that will be no more): Ad-libbed by actor Bill Murray in the 1984 film Ghostbusters (see quotation).

#### Noun

toast (countable and uncountable, plural toasts)
* (countable, uncountable) Toasted bread.
    I ate a piece of toast for breakfast.
** 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.
* (countable) A proposed salutation (e.g. to say "cheers") while drinking alcohol.
    At the reception, there were many toasts from the well-wishers.
* (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, →ISSN:Josephine Baker did not become the toast of Paris by just shaking her booty for some theater gypsies as a party wound down.
* (uncountable, slang, chiefly US) Something that is irreparably damaged or used up, especially when destroyed by heat or fire; something which has been burnt to a crisp or incinerated.
    The metal frame survived the fire, but the plastic and rubber bits are toast.
* (uncountable, slang, chiefly US) Something that will be no more; something subject to impending destruction, harm or injury.
    to become/be toast
    If I ever get my hands on the guy that stole my wallet, he’s toast!
** 1984, Ghostbusters, spoken by Peter Venkman (Bill Murray):This chick is toast!The original line was: "I'm gonna turn this guy into toast."
* (countable, music, slang, Jamaica) A type of extemporaneous narrative poem or rap.
* (countable, slang, obsolete) An old toast ("a lively fellow who drinks excessively").
* (countable, 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.
* (countable, obsolete outside India) A piece of toast.
** c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v], page 52, column 1:Go, fetch me a quart of Sacke, put a toſt in't.

##### Derived terms

* anchovy toast
* avocado toast
* beans on toast
* brick toast
* burn one's toast
* burnt toast theory
* cheese on toast
* freedom toast
* French toast
* have someone on toast
* honey toast
* loyal toast
* milk toast
* pizza toast
* prawn toast
* Shibuya toast
* shit on toast
* shrimp toast
* tea and toast syndrome
* Texas toast
* tiger toast
* toaster
* toast Hawaii
* toastmaker
* toastmaster
* toast notification
* toast of the town
* toast point
* toast rack
* toast sandwich
* toast water
* tongue toast
* warm as toast
* watched toast never burns

##### Related terms

* torrent
* torrid

##### Descendants

* → Bulgarian: тост (tost)
* → Czech: toust, toast
* → Dutch: toost, toast
* → French: toast
** → Romanian: toast
* → German: Toast
* → Greek: τοστ (tost)
* → Hebrew: טוסט (tost)
* → Italian: toast
* → Japanese: トースト (tōsuto)
* → Korean: 토스트 (toseuteu)
* → Maori: tōhi
* → Macedonian: тост (tost)
* → Norwegian Bokmål: toast
* → Norwegian Nynorsk: toast
* → Polish: tost, toast
* → Russian: тост (tost)
** → Armenian: տոստ (tost)
* → Turkish: tost
* → Ukrainian: тост (tost)
* → Welsh: tost

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

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

#### Verb

toast (third-person singular simple present toasts, present participle toasting, simple past and past participle toasted)
* To lightly cook by browning via direct exposure to a fire or other heat source.
    We liked to toast marshmallows around the campfire.
* 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.
* 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.
* To warm thoroughly.
    I toasted my feet by the fire.
* (music, slang, Jamaica) To perform extemporaneous narrative poem or rap.
** 2014, Richard James Burgess, The History of Music Production, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 168:Toasting over a record does more than change the way that record is perceived by the audience: it creates a new piece of music with joint creative authorship, although the law does not support this characterization.

##### Derived terms

* retoast
* toast up

##### Translations

    The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

### References

* ↑ Ben Zimmer (2023 June 22) “'Toast': From Busting Ghosts to Burning Careers”, in The Wall Street Journal‎, New York, N.Y.: Dow Jones & Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 June 2023:In the script, as the Ghostbusters train their proton blasters on Gozer, Murray's character says, "That's it! I'm gonna turn this guy into toast." By the time the scene was shot, the filmmakers had decided the human form of Gozer should be played by the model Slavitza Jovan. Murray improvised various comments about her, including changing the line in the script to "This chick is toast." The Oxford English Dictionary recognizes Murray's ad-lib as the earliest known occurrence of "toast" with the modern meaning, calling the usage "proleptic."
* Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “toast”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* stato-, stoat, tasto, toats, totas

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English toast.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /toːst/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: toast
* Rhymes: -oːst
* Homophone: toost

### Noun

toast m (plural toasts, diminutive toastje n)
* (chiefly diminutive) Melba toast

#### Related terms

* toasten

## Estonian
### Noun

toast
* elative singular of tuba

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English toast. Doublet of tôt.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɔst/
* Audio (France, Avignon):(file)

### Noun

toast m (plural toasts)
* toast (bread)
* toast (salutation)

### Further reading

* “toast”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Italian
### Alternative forms

* tosto (rare)

### Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, from English toast.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɔst/
* Rhymes: -ɔst

### Noun

toast m (invariable)
* toasted sandwich

#### Related terms

* tostapane
* tostare
* tostatura
* tosto

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* stato, tasto, tastò, tosta

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

Borrowed from English toast.

### Noun

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

#### Synonyms

* ristet brød

### References

* “toast” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

Borrowed from English toast.

### Noun

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

#### Synonyms

* rista brød

### References

* “toast” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English toast. Doublet of tost.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɔ.ast/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔast
* Syllabification: to‧ast

### Noun

toast m inan (diminutive toaścik)
* toast (proposed salutation)

#### Derived terms

* toastowy
* toastować impf

### Further reading

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

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French toast.

### Noun

toast n (plural toasturi)
* toast (salutation when drinking alcohol)

#### Declension
## Swedish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English toast. First attested in 1790

### Noun

toast c
* toast (toasted bread)
    Synonym: rostat bröd (literally “toasted bread”)
* toast (salutation)
    Synonym: skål

#### Usage notes

Fancier sounding than rostat bröd. Often in the names of dishes.

#### Derived terms

* toast Pelle Janzon
* Toast Skagen

### References

* ↑ toast in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* toast in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* toast in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)