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taste
CEFRA1
/teɪst/
noun · verb
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In plain English
- 01
noun
The quality of food sensed in the mouth.
- 02
verb
To experience a flavor with the mouth.
Examples
Black coffee leaves a bitter taste in the mouth.
Dried fish is not to my taste.
At a glance
Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
- 2
- Citations
- 5
- Synonyms
- 5
Deep Dive
noun
Extra meaningsA small sample of food, drink, or recreational drugs.
The sense that consists in the perception and interpretation of this sensation.
One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals; the quality of giving this sensation.
More examples
In contextI don't like your taste in color.
He had a strange taste in his mouth.
His taste was impaired by an illness.
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Origin
noun
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. The noun came from the verb, and the two conflated after English lost its infinitive suffix -en, though tasten was most likely already used nominatively (as a gerund), similar to Modern English tasting. Almost fully displaced native smack, from Middle English smac, smak, smacke, from Old English smæc, smæċ...