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[ English

[ Alternative spellings

• tast (obsolete)

[ Pronunciation

• IPA: /teɪst/
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• Rhymes: -eɪst

[ Noun

taste (plural tastes) (countable) and (uncountable)

1. One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals often confused and/or mixed somewhat with smelling. The primary sensations classified as taste are: sweet, sour, bitter, salty and umami.
2. (countable) and (uncountable): A person’s generic, implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc.

   Dr. Parker has good taste in wine.

3. (uncountable): a metaphorical usage to describe having a small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality as a whole.

   Voltaire is quoted to have said "I tasted in her arms the delights of paradise".

Livy is quoted to have said "they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom"

[ Derived terms

• tasty

[ Translations

[ Verb

to 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.

   The chicken tasted great.

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