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toastmaster

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

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

toastmaster

/ ˈtəʊstˌmɑːstə /

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

First recorded in 1740–50; toast ² + master

Also, of all the jolly stories told by the toastmaster, and of the fun he had had at some other entertainments.

President Lauman was toastmaster, and opened the banquet with an address of welcome to Senator Harrison.

As toastmaster, deliver the first after-dinner remarks drawing attention to the occasion and introducing some one to speak.

He called on the president of a bank, who rose totteringly and undid the toastmaster's good offices by making too long a speech.

The toastmaster, a New York executive who had graduated from Webster twenty years before, understood the temper of his charge.

April 25, 2024firkin

[fur-kin ]

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