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Definition taste

Etymology

From Middle English tasten, borrowed from Old French taster, from assumed Vulgar Latin *tast?re, from assumed Vulgar Latin *taxit?re, a new iterative of Latin tax?re (“to touch sharply”), from tangere (“to touch”). Almost displaced native Middle English smaken, smakien (“to taste”) (from Old English smacian (“to taste”)), Middle English smecchen (“to taste, smack”) (from Old English smæ??an (“to taste”)) (whence Modern English smack), Middle English buri?en (“to taste”) (from Old English byrigan, birian (“to taste”)).

Noun

taste (countable and uncountable, plural tastes)

  1. One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals; the quality of giving this sensation.
  2. The sense that consists in the perception and interpretation of this sensation.
  3. (countable and uncountable) A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc.
  4. Personal preference; liking; predilection.
  5. (uncountable, figuratively) A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality as a whole.
  6. A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.

Verb

taste (third-person singular simple present tastes, present participle tasting, simple past and past participle tasted)

  1. (transitive) To sample the flavor of something orally.
  2. (intransitive) To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavour is distinguished.
  3. To experience.
  4. To take sparingly.
  5. To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
  6. (obsolete) To try by the touch; to handle.

Results 193 Words with the letters TASTE

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