1. Have flavour; have a taste of something
   "The soup tasted of garlic";
   - savor [US], savour [Brit, Cdn]
    
2. Perceive by the sense of taste
   "Can you taste the garlic?"
    
3. Have a distinctive or characteristic taste
   "This tastes of nutmeg";
   - smack
    
4. Distinguish flavours
   "We tasted wines last night"
    
5. Take a sample of
   "taste the regional dishes";
   - sample, try, try out
    
6. Experience briefly
   "The ex-slave tasted freedom shortly before she died"

1. The sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus
   "the candy left him with a bad taste"; "the melon had a delicious taste"; "The complex taste sensation of the wine impressed the sommelier"; "The researcher studied how taste perception changes with age";
   - taste sensation, gustatory sensation, taste perception, gustatory perception
    
2. A strong liking
   "She developed a taste for classical music";
   - preference, penchant, predilection, cup of tea [informal]
    
3. The faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth
   "his cold deprived him of his sense of taste";
   - gustation, sense of taste, gustatory modality
    
4. Delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values)
   "arrogance and lack of taste contributed to his rapid success"; "to ask at that particular time was the ultimate in bad taste";
   - appreciation, discernment, perceptiveness
    
5. A brief experience of something
   "he got a taste of life on the wild side"; "she enjoyed her brief taste of independence"
    
6. A small amount eaten or drunk
   "take a taste — you'll like it";
   - mouthful

Derived forms: tasted, tasting, tastes

See also: tasteful, tasteless, tasty [US, informal]

Type of: aesthesis, appear, comprehend, consume, discrimination, esthesis [US], experience, exteroception, have, identify, ingest, know, liking, live, look, modality, perceive, secernment, seem, sensation, sense datum, sense experience, sense impression, sense modality, sensory system, small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity, take, take in

Part of: helping, portion, serving

Encyclopedia: Taste