toastmaster

Noun

Meaning

A person who presides at a public dinner or banquet, and announces the toasts.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

marshal director anchorman host leader ceremony chairman ceremonial administrator presenter moderator spokesman coordinator chairperson chairwoman
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Antonyms

secretary lackey hand assistant minion factotum
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Hypernyms

host

Examples

The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast. Clarence Budington Kelland

They don't need a lawyer, they need a toastmaster. Edward Bennett Williams

The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it. Adlai Stevenson II

And Allen Steele kept everything moving as toastmaster. Source: Internet

'What is your favorite book,' asked J.P. McEvoy, the toastmaster. Source: Internet

Things I Heard at Bouchercon: Remarking on the antipathy some “literary” writers have for crime fictionists, toastmaster and author ) said that he’d recently heard somebody describe crime writers as “the smokers of the literary world. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

toastless toastlike toastmaker toastmastering toastmastery toastmistress