toast – English noun declension

English noun forms of toast

Noun: toast
Singulartoast
Pluraltoasts

Sample Sentences

  • I ate a piece of toast for breakfast.
  • This toast and marmalade tastes heavenly.
  • 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. [1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, page 23:]
  • At the reception, there were many toasts from the well-wishers.
  • The evening meal was "a repast of most recherché description," involving an endless series of toasts to almost everybody (with the notable exception of the other railway already serving Brentford, which came in for some hard knocks from various speakers). [1960 February 26, R. K. Kirkland, “The Great Western and Brentford Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 79:]
  • He was the toast of high society.
  • Josephine Baker did not become the toast of Paris by just shaking her booty for some theater gypsies as a party wound down. [2014 May 28, John McWhorter, “Saint Maya”, in The New Republic, →ISSN:]
  • The metal frame survived the fire, but the plastic and rubber bits are toast.
  • to become/be toast
  • If I ever get my hands on the guy that stole my wallet, he’s toast!
  • You are going to be toast if you don't submit your school project on time.
  • 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." [Ben Zimmer (22 June 2023), “'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 Jun 2023:]
  • He [P. Hegseth] said the Iranian regime “are toast, and they know it, or at least soon enough, they will know it.” [2026 March 4, Joseph Gedeon, quoting Pete Hegseth, “Pete Hegseth says Iranian regime is ‘toast’ as US expands military offensive”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:]
  • 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. [2012, Nick Lecrenski, Doug Holland, Allen Sanders, Professional Windows 8 Programming:]
  • Go, fetch me a quart of Sacke, put a toſt in't. [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:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *ters-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-tós
4. Proto-Indo-European *tr̥stós
5. Proto-Italic *torstos
6. Latin tostus
7. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
8. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
9. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
10. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
11. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.
12. Proto-Italic *-ājō
13. Proto-Italic *-āō
14. Latin -ō
15. Late Latin tostō
16. Old French tosterbor.
17. Middle English tostendeverb.
18. Middle English tost
19. English toast
20. From Middle English tost, from the verb tosten (see below).
21. Etymology 1 sense 3 is according to the Oxford English Dictionary a figurative application of etymology 1 sense 1 dating to 1674. It began as an epithet for a lady being supposed to flavour a bumper like a spiced toast placed in that drink. (In this context, a bumper is a drinking vessel filled to the brim.) See: Middle English Nouns 'tost'.

Verbs referencing "toast"

Dutch Nouns toast, French Nouns toast, Italian Nouns toast, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns toast, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns toast, German Nouns Toast, Dutch Nouns tosti, Dutch Nouns toost, Russian Nouns тост, Ukrainian Nouns тост.