Definitions for taste

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Spelling: [teyst]

IPA: /teɪst/

Taste is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 62 anagrams from letters in taste (aestt).

Definitions for taste

noun

1. the act of tasting food or drink.
2. the sense by which the flavor or savor of things is perceived when they are brought into contact with the tongue.
3. the sensation or quality as perceived by this sense; flavor.
4. a small quantity tasted; a morsel, bit, or sip.
5. a relish, liking, or partiality for something:
6. the sense of what is fitting, harmonious, or beautiful; the perception and enjoyment of what constitutes excellence in the fine arts, literature, fashion, etc.
7. the sense of what is seemly, polite, tactful, etc., to say or do in a given social situation.
8. one's personal attitude or reaction toward an aesthetic phenomenon or social situation, regarded as either good or bad.
9. the ideas of aesthetic excellence or of aesthetically valid forms prevailing in a culture or personal to an individual:
10. the formal idiom preferred by a certain artist or culture; style; manner:
11. a slight experience or a sample of something:
12. a feeling or sensation resulting from an experience:
13. Obsolete. test or trial.

Idioms

1. taste blood. blood (def 24).
2. to one's taste, agreeable or pleasing to one:

verb (used with object)

1. to try or test the flavor or quality of (something) by taking some into the mouth:
2. to eat or drink a little of:
3. to eat or drink (often used in negative constructions):
4. to perceive or distinguish the flavor of:
5. to have or get experience, especially a slight experience:
6. to perceive in any way.
7. Archaic. to enjoy or appreciate.
8. Obsolete. to examine by touch; feel. to test or try.

verb (used without object)

1. to try the flavor or quality of something.
2. to eat or drink a little (usually followed by of):
3. to perceive or distinguish the flavor of anything.
4. to have experience of something, however limited or slight.
5. to have a particular flavor (often followed by of):
6. to smack or savor (usually followed by of):

Origin of taste

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 ta

Examples for taste

But then, you are told that these objects are not in the style and taste of the people.

There are then some of you who have a taste for such trifling.

The correspondent does a stand-up next to a burning pile of heroin and gets a taste of its effect.

In this the Man of taste is obviously following the reigning fashion.

Whisk in the half and half and season to taste with salt and pepper.

Even if you had the brains, you ain't got the taste nor the sperrit in you.

Nil admirari is the motto of the Man of taste in Building, where he is naturally at home.

For Paul, the thrill of breakfast with the Reverend, may be giving way to the taste of burnt toast.

The taste of metal cutlery after years of plastic can also taste funny.

And they also expect those products to remain affordable and taste great.