👅 Has a flavor 👅 Sense of flavor 🎨 Style preference 🥄 A small sample 🥄 To try food 🌄 To experience briefly

to taste

323 1.0

To try a small amount of food or drink to check its flavor

verb
/teɪst/

: probar

Taste it!
taste food
taste fruit
taste liquor

And then we're going to taste the soup, baby.

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Examples

Fine, I'll taste it.

Smurfs (2025)
And then we're going to taste the soup, baby.

Ear Biscuits
OK, and now it is time to taste the good news in food news.
I have no idea what this will taste like but it sounds great.
All right, taste the food.

This Could Be the Night (1957)
And in return he showed me how to taste coffee like a pro.
I want you to taste that candy cane.
First, I want you to taste the salty pudding.
I want you to taste this delicious cake and tell me what you think.
Before cooking, you should taste the sauce to see if it needs more seasoning.

Synonyms

to try

vsto taste

661 1.0

To taste a small amount of food or drink

is used to experience flavor rather than check quality

to sample

vsto taste

95 2.6

To taste a small amount to check quality or flavor

focuses on experiencing flavor rather than formal quality testing

Idioms

bad taste in someone's mouth

3 6.7

An unpleasant feeling of dislike after an experience

in good taste

3 3.9

Showing a polite, attractive style that most people approve of

champagne taste on a beer budget

Informal

8.2

A desire for expensive things you cannot afford

Phrasal Verbs

to neutralize the taste

4.4

To make a strong or bad flavor weaker by adding another ingredient

Compounds

taste bud

23 2.1

Small bumps on the tongue that sense sweet, sour, salty, and bitter

bad taste

21 4.1

An unpleasant feeling that stays after something rude or upsetting

acquired taste

9 6.1

A liking for something you only enjoy after trying it a few times

exquisite taste

4 5.5

Skill in choosing and enjoying very beautiful or high quality things like art

sense of taste

3 2.7

Ability to notice sweet, sour, bitter and salty flavors in your mouth

particular taste

2 3.6

A person's special likes for food, music or style

taste sensation

Specialized

1 3.8

A feeling in the mouth when the tongue notices flavor

taste tester

1 2.8

A person who tries food or drink to check its flavour

highbrow taste

1 8.4

A liking for art, books, and food seen as very cultured

taste-maker

1 6.2

A person who makes new styles or ideas popular

Dellacruscan taste

Archaic

9.9

A liking for old-fashioned styles in art or writing

retrosexual taste

9.1

A liking for old styles like 1950s clothes and old music records

taste cell

Specialized

5.1

A cell on the tongue that senses chemicals in food and sends signals to nerves

taste perception

Specialized

3.9

Ability to notice and understand flavors in the mouth from food and drink

taste-tester

3.7

A person who tries food or drink to judge how good it is

zingy taste

4.4

A sharp, lively taste like lemon or mild spice

How Much

to sip

127 1.0

to taste

323 1.0

to nibble

56 2.0

Surface Forms

taste infinitive

tasted past

tasted past participle

tasting present participle

tastes third person singular

Etymology

Taste comes from an old word tastare meaning 'to try', so to taste food is to try a little of it to learn its flavor.