tastenoun
uk/teɪst/us/teɪst/taste noun (FLAVOUR)
B1 [ C or U ] the flavour of something, or the ability of a person or animal to recognize different flavours:
C2 the fact of liking or enjoying something:
[ S ] a small amount of food:
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- When preparing meals, you need to think about variety and taste as well as nutritional value.
- Lemons have a sharp taste.
- This wine has a light, fresh taste.
- Aniseed has a very distinctive taste - I don't like it personally.
- We value herbs for their taste, but we forget that they also have medicinal properties.
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Flavours & tastes
- acidic
- acidity
- acidulous
- aftertaste
- bite
- bitter
- cheesy
- flavourful
- flavourless
- flavoursome
- full-bodied
- gamy
- plummy
- savour
- sugary
- sweet-and-sour
- sweetness
- tang
- tangy
- toasty
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taste noun (JUDGMENT)
B2 [ C or U ] a person's approval of and liking for particular things:
B2 [ U ] approving a person's ability to judge and recognize what is good or suitable, especially relating to such matters as art, style, beauty, and behaviour:
the things a person likes:
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- She has a rather esoteric taste in clothes.
- She's always had execrable taste in men.
- She has exquisite taste.
- They've got those curtains that tie up with big bows - they're a bit fussy for my taste.
- I don't think garden gnomes are in very good taste.
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Liking
- affection
- attached
- be a glutton for sth idiom
- be a hit with sb idiom
- be big on sth idiom
- grow
- grow on sb
- have a lot of time for sb idiom
- have a thing about sth/sb idiom
- heart
- hit
- lick your lips idiom
- liking
- smitten
- soft corner
- soft spot
- take a shine to sb idiom
- take to sb/sth
- thing
- warm
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taste noun (EXPERIENCE)
B2 [ S ] a short experience of something:
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Samples and examples
- advertisement
- aliquot
- archetype
- benchmark
- classic
- classical
- core
- cross-section
- for instance idiom
- forerunner
- illustration
- instance
- job
- quintessence
- role model
- sample
- showpiece
- sort
- specimen
- swatch
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Idiom(s)
tasteverb [ T ]
uk/teɪst/us/teɪst/taste verb [ T ] (FOOD/DRINK)
B1 to put food or drink in your mouth to find out what flavour it has:
B1 to have a particular flavour:
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- Taste the stew to see if it has enough salt.
- How do you know you don't like it if you won't even taste it?
- We all tasted the cake.
- If you've ever tasted Carmen's cooking, you'll know what I mean.
- She drew off a little of her home-made wine just to taste.
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Eating
- al desko
- ate
- binge
- binge eating
- bite
- consume
- feast
- feast on sth
- feeder
- feeding
- finish
- gorge
- pig out
- put sth away
- scarf
- scoff
- shovel sth into your mouth idiom
- stoke
- trough
- tuck
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taste verb [ T ] (EXPERIENCE)
to experience something for a short time:
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Experiencing and suffering
- afflict
- affliction
- almost/nearly die of sth idiom
- be a martyr to sth idiom
- be a victim of your own success idiom
- be devoured by sth idiom
- get the short end of the stick idiom
- get/have your fingers burned idiom
- go through sth
- grip
- hands-on
- hold
- ride
- sample
- seat
- sense
- undergo
- underwent
- ups and downs
- writhe
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