taste

/teist/
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taste

The child tastes the sweet strawberry.

Definition

  1. Noun:

    • The sensation perceived by the tongue when eating or drinking: The sense that allows one to distinguish flavors like sweet, sour, salty, and bitter.
    • A small sample of food or drink: A small amount consumed to judge its flavor.
    • A brief experience of something: A limited exposure to a situation or feeling.
    • Personal preference or liking: A person's individual inclination or fondness for something.
    • The ability to judge what is aesthetically good or appropriate: Discernment in matters of style, beauty, or social behavior.

  2. Verb:

    • To perceive or recognize the flavor of something by putting it in the mouth: To use one's sense of taste.
    • To have a particular flavor: To produce a specific sensation on the tongue.
    • To eat or drink a small amount of something: To sample.
    • To experience something, especially briefly: To have a short encounter with a condition or emotion.
Usage Examples

  • Noun:

    • Sugar has a sweet taste. (The flavor sensation of sugar is sweet.)
    • May I have a taste of your soup? (May I try a small sample of your soup?)
    • Working there gave him a taste of responsibility. (Working there provided him with a brief experience of responsibility.)
    • She has expensive taste in clothes. (She has a preference for costly clothing.)
    • The furniture was chosen with impeccable taste. (The furniture was selected with excellent aesthetic judgment.)

  • Verb:

    • Can you taste the garlic in this sauce? (Are you able to perceive the flavor of garlic in this sauce?)
    • This milk tastes sour. (This milk has a sour flavor.)
    • The chef tasted the sauce before serving. (The chef sampled the sauce before serving.)
    • He finally tasted freedom after years in prison. (He finally experienced freedom after years in prison.)
Advanced Usage
  • "To be in bad/poor taste": To be socially inappropriate, offensive, or lacking aesthetic judgment.
    • His joke about the tragedy was in very poor taste.
  • "To be an acquired taste": Something that one learns to like over time.
    • Olives are an acquired taste for many people.
  • "There's no accounting for taste": A saying meaning that personal preferences are subjective and cannot be explained or argued.
    • He loves that garish painting, but there's no accounting for taste.
Variants and Related Words
  • Tasteful (adjective): Showing good aesthetic judgment or social appropriateness.
    • The room was decorated in a tasteful manner.
  • Tasteless (adjective): Lacking flavor; or showing poor aesthetic judgment, vulgar.
    • The soup was bland and tasteless. / He told a tasteless joke.
  • Taster (noun): A person who samples food or drink, especially professionally.
    • She works as a wine taster.
  • Tasting (noun): An event where samples of food or drink are tried.
    • We went to a cheese tasting.
Synonyms
  • Noun (Flavor): Flavor, savor.
  • Noun (Preference): Preference, liking, fondness, penchant.
  • Noun (Discernment): Discernment, judgment, discrimination.
  • Verb (Sample): Sample, try, test.
  • Verb (Experience): Experience, know, undergo.
Phrasal Verbs / Related Phrases
  • Taste of (something): To have a hint or suggestion of a particular flavor or quality.
    • The stew tasted of herbs and garlic.
  • Have a taste for (something): To like or enjoy something.
    • He has a taste for adventure.
Related Idioms
  • "A taste of your own medicine": Being treated in the same unpleasant way one has treated others.
    • After being so rude, he got a taste of his own medicine when they ignored him.
  • "Leave a bad taste in one's mouth": To create a feeling of disgust, distaste, or dissatisfaction.
    • The unfair decision left a bad taste in my mouth.
taste

The child tastes the sweet strawberry.

Noun
  1. a kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds
    • a wine tasting
  2. the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth
    • his cold deprived him of his sense of taste
  3. a small amount eaten or drunk
    • take a taste--you'll like it
  4. a brief experience of something
    • he got a taste of life on the wild side
    • she enjoyed her brief taste of independence
  5. delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values)
    • arrogance and lack of taste contributed to his rapid success
    • to ask at that particular time was the ultimate in bad taste
  6. a strong liking
    • my own preference is for good literature
    • the Irish have a penchant for blarney
  7. the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus
    • the candy left him with a bad taste
    • the melon had a delicious taste
Verb
  1. experience briefly
    • The ex-slave tasted freedom shortly before she died
  2. distinguish flavors
    • We tasted wines last night
  3. have a distinctive or characteristic taste
    • This tastes of nutmeg
  4. take a sample of
    • Try these new crackers
    • Sample the regional dishes
  5. perceive by the sense of taste
    • Can you taste the garlic?
  6. have flavor; taste of something

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