toastmaster

[tohst-mas-ter, -mah-ster]

noun

1. a person who presides at a dinner and introduces the after-dinner speakers.

2. a person who proposes or announces toasts. toast.

toastmaster

/ ˈtəʊstˌmɑːstə /

noun

1. a person who introduces after-dinner speakers, proposes or announces toasts, etc, at public or formal dinners

Other Word Forms

• toastmistress noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of toastmaster¹

First recorded in 1740–50; toast ² + master

Example Sentences

Master of Ceremonies A friend of the couple’s who is a translator and speaks Russian and English, Max Lawton, acted as the “tamada,” or toastmaster, in the Georgian tradition.

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He stayed on, though, as the WHCA’s leader — and set the jovial tone for its dinners as toastmaster.

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FDR posed for pictures with crowds of scouts, and was toastmaster at a fried chicken dinner before returning to the city that evening.

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Martin is this year’s “toastmaster”, a role he carried out by Zoom from the Jean Cocteau, his theatre in Santa Fe.

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Meetings are structured according to an agenda that most clubs follow: The toastmaster acts as a master of ceremonies.

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