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/təʊst/ · noun
(chiefly uncountable) Bread that has been toasted (cooked lightly by browning)..
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.
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).
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.
The metal frame survived the fire, but the plastic and rubber bits are toast.
Use toast when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Toast means (chiefly uncountable) Bread that has been toasted (cooked lightly by browning)..
Common synonyms include pledge, dead duck, dead meat, crisp.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
I ate a piece of toast for breakfast.
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