Other forms: toastmasters
A toastmaster is the person who announces speeches at a formal dinner. Hire a toastmaster, the toastmaster called for silence, a red-coated toastmaster.
The red tailcoat is the uniform and is there to be seen across a room. The job is timing and order rather than speaking, and a good one keeps a long evening from collapsing into chaos.
1nountoastmasterThe person who announces speeches at a formal dinner.
“The toastmaster called for silence and introduced the best man's speech.”
toastmaster is an announcer.
Toast plus master, from the toasts proposed at a formal dinner.
From toast + master. From toast + master.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA