taste
One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals; the quality of giving this sensation.
Noun 4 meanings
One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals; the quality of giving this sensation.
“He had a strange taste in his mouth.”
The sense that consists in the perception and interpretation of this sensation.
“His taste was impaired by an illness.”
A small sample of food, drink, or recreational drugs.
A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc.
“Dr. Parker has good taste in wine.”
Verb 4 meanings
To sample the flavor of something orally.
To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavor is distinguished.
“The chicken tasted great, but the milk tasted like garlic.”
To identify (a flavor) by sampling something orally.
“I can definitely taste the marzipan in this cake.”
To experience.
“I tasted in her arms the delights of paradise.”
Etymology
The verb is from Middle English tasten, borrowed from Old French taster (“to taste, touch or hit”), from unattested Vulgar Latin *tastāre (“to touch or feel”), from *taxitāre, an innovated iterative form of Classical Latin taxāre (“to touch sharply”), from tangere (“to touch, to grasp”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g-, which is assumed to have had the same meaning as tangere.
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TASTE at a glance
TASTE has 5 letters and scores 5 points in Scrabble (T 1 + A 1 + S 1 + T 1 + E 1) and 5 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #1,876 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with taste
All rhymes- WASTE8
- PASTE7
- CASTE7
- HASTE8
- TOOTHPASTE15
- CELESTE9
- DISTASTE9
- ARTISTE7
- CHASTE11
- AUGUSTE8
- NAMASTE9
- AFTERTASTE13
One letter away
- WASTE8
- PASTE7
- TASTY8
- CASTE7
- HASTE8
- BASTE7
- TESTE5
- TASSE5
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