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verb (used with object)
1.
to try or test the flavor or quality of (something) by taking some into the mouth: to taste food.
2.
to eat or drink a little of: She barely tasted her dinner.
3.
to eat or drink (often used in negative constructions): He hadn't tasted food for three days.
4.
to perceive or distinguish the flavor of: to taste the wine in a sauce.
5.
EXPANDto have or get experience, especially a slight experience: these young men who had only begun to taste life.
6.
to perceive in any way.
7.
Archaic. to enjoy or appreciate.
8.
COLLAPSEObsolete.
a.
to examine by touch; feel.
b.
to test or try.
verb (used without object)
9.
to try the flavor or quality of something.
10.
to eat or drink a little (usually followed by of): She tasted of the cake.
11.
to perceive or distinguish the flavor of anything.
12.
to have experience of something, however limited or slight.
13.
EXPANDto have a particular flavor (often followed by of): The coffee tastes bitter. The bread tastes of mold.
14.
COLLAPSEto smack or savor (usually followed by of): The story tastes of treason.
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noun
Idioms15.
the act of tasting food or drink.
16.
the sense by which the flavor or savor of things is perceived when they are brought into contact with the tongue.
17.
the sensation or quality as perceived by this sense; flavor.
18.
a small quantity tasted; a morsel, bit, or sip.
19.
EXPANDa relish, liking, or partiality for something: a taste for music.
20.
the sense of what is fitting, harmonious, or beautiful; the perception and enjoyment of what constitutes excellence in the fine arts, literature, fashion, etc.
21.
the sense of what is seemly, polite, tactful, etc., to say or do in a given social situation.
22.
one's personal attitude or reaction toward an aesthetic phenomenon or social situation, regarded as either good or bad.
23.
the ideas of aesthetic excellence or of aesthetically valid forms prevailing in a culture or personal to an individual: a sample of Victorian taste; I consulted only my own taste in decorating this room.
24.
the formal idiom preferred by a certain artist or culture; style; manner: a façade in the Baroque taste.
25.
a slight experience or a sample of something: a taste of adventure.
26.
a feeling or sensation resulting from an experience: a compromise that left a bad taste in her mouth.
27.
COLLAPSEObsolete. test or trial.
28.
taste blood. blood (def. 24).
29.
to one's taste, agreeable or pleasing to one: He couldn't find any ties that were completely to his taste.
Origin:
1250–1300; (v.) Middle English tasten to touch, taste < Old French taster to touch, explore by touching (Middle French: to touch, taste); cognate with Italian tastare, Provençal, Old Spanish tastar < ?; (noun) Middle English tast sense of touch, a trying, tasting < Old French, derivative of taster
1250–1300; (v.) Middle English tasten to touch, taste < Old French taster to touch, explore by touching (Middle French: to touch, taste); cognate with Italian tastare, Provençal, Old Spanish tastar < ?; (noun) Middle English tast sense of touch, a trying, tasting < Old French, derivative of taster
Related forms
tast·a·ble, taste·a·ble, adjective
pre·taste, noun, verb (used with object), pre·tast·ed, pre·tast·ing.
re·taste, verb, re·tast·ed, re·tast·ing.
un·tast·a·ble, adjective
un·taste·a·ble, adjective
EXPANDSynonyms
1. savor. 17. Taste, flavor, savor refer to a quality that is perceived when a substance is placed upon the tongue. Taste is the general word: the taste of roast beef. Flavor is a characteristic taste, usually of a pleasing kind, and as of some ingredient put into the food: lemon flavor. Savor, much less common than taste or flavor, implies pleasing scent as well as taste or flavor, and connotes enjoyment in tasting: The sauce has an excellent savor. 19. fondness, disposition, appreciation, predisposition. 20. discernment, perception, judgment.
1. savor. 17. Taste, flavor, savor refer to a quality that is perceived when a substance is placed upon the tongue. Taste is the general word: the taste of roast beef. Flavor is a characteristic taste, usually of a pleasing kind, and as of some ingredient put into the food: lemon flavor. Savor, much less common than taste or flavor, implies pleasing scent as well as taste or flavor, and connotes enjoyment in tasting: The sauce has an excellent savor. 19. fondness, disposition, appreciation, predisposition. 20. discernment, perception, judgment.
Antonyms
19. antipathy.
19. antipathy.
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Word Origin & History
taste
c.1300, "act of tasting," from O.Fr. tast (Fr. tât), from taster (see taste (v.)). Meaning "faculty or sense by which flavor of a thing is discerned" is attested from c.1380. Meaning "savor, sapidity, flavor" is from 1382. Sense of "aesthetic judgment" is first attested
EXPAND1671 (cf. Fr. goût, Ger. geschmack, Rus. vkus, etc.). Tasteful in this sense is from 1756.
COLLAPSE
"Of all the five senses, 'taste' is the one most closely associated with fine discrimination, hence the familiar secondary uses of words for 'taste, good taste' with reference to aesthetic appreciation." [Buck]
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
taste (tāst)
n.
The sense that distinguishes the sweet, sour, salty, and bitter qualities of dissolved substances in contact with the taste buds on the tongue.
This sense in combination with the senses of smell and touch, which together receive a sensation of a substance in the mouth.
The sensation of sweet, sour, salty, or bitter qualities produced by or as if by a substance placed in the mouth.
The unified sensation produced by any of these qualities plus a distinct smell and texture; flavor.
To distinguish the flavor of something by taking it into the mouth.
To eat or drink a small quantity of something.
To distinguish flavors in the mouth.
To have a distinct flavor.
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Slang Dictionary
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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