Word of the Week - 43

TOAST

According to the internet, today is Toast Day. I'm not sure exactly why anybody would want to celebrate Toast Day but it did give me today's word of the week. Now, I'm sure you all know what toast is and you most probably eat it every morning with olive oil and fresh tomato. Being English, I eat mine with butter and jam or marmalade or sometimes honey. But today's word of the week is not that kind of toast. (Just remember that 'toast' the food is an uncountable noun! We talk about pieces of toast if we wish to count them)

Today's 'toast' is a drink. Well, it's not really the drink, but more of the expression of congratulations and good wishes that goes along with an alcoholic drink, usually wine or champagne. The word can be used as a noun or a verb.

Now, if you'd all please raise your glasses, I'd like to propose a toast to the bride and groom.

Champagne corks popped as the guests drank a toast to the happy couple.

We all toasted the happy couple after the speech.