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Definition taste in British English

taste noun

noun
/teɪst/

▪ acquire, develop, get, have, indulge, share

1

the flavour that something creates in your mouth when you eat or drink it

Example

I love the taste of chocolate.

Example

This peach has a sweeter taste than that one.

Example

Our cheeses are very different in texture and taste.

Example

Add salt to taste (=until you like the taste).

Synonyms and related words
umami taste flavour
1.1

a small amount of food or drink that you eat or drink in order to see what flavour it has

Example

Have a taste of this wine.

Example

Would you like a taste?

Synonyms and related words
a stick of butter/margarine batch bed
1.2

your mouth's ability to notice the flavour of different foods and drinks

Example

The illness can produce a loss of smell and taste.

Example

She doesn't have a very strong sense of taste.

Synonyms and related words
catch olfactory palate
2

the ability to judge if something is good or bad in things like art, fashion, and social behaviour

Example

They all admired her taste.

Example

Money cannot make up for bad taste and bad manners.

Example

His joke about her divorce was in the worst possible taste.

Synonyms and related words
intelligence intuition intellect
3

the types of thing that you like, for example in art, music, or clothes

Example

Our tastes and interests are so different.

Example

The meals are designed to accommodate all tastes.

Example

I don't have expensive tastes (=I don't like expensive things).

Example

The films appeal to popular taste (=what most people like).

Example

The girls share his taste in music.

Example

Even at a young age he had a taste for books.

Example

Strong black coffee is an acquired taste.

Synonyms and related words
liking affection taste
4

a short experience of something that you are not used to

Example

After 16 years in prison, it was their first taste of freedom.

Example

Enjoy a taste of Italy with writer Valentina Harris.

Synonyms and related words
situation circumstance conditions
5

the feeling that is created by an experience

Example

I still remember the taste of fear from skydiving.

Example

the sweet taste of revenge

Synonyms and related words
mood emotion feelings
Definition taste in British English