taste

US /test/

UK /teɪst/

A2

noun

  • (Good) sense of style in clothes, art, or manners
  • Flavor in your mouth from food or drink
  • A liking for something; preference
  • Brief experience of something

verb

  • To experience something
  • To experience the flavor of food, drink
  • To briefly experience to see if you like something

Examples

The new appraisal scheme is only a taste of things to come.

Contemporary arbiters of taste dismissed his paintings as rubbish.