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

to taste

133 2.7

To feel something for a short time, often something new

verb
/teɪst/

Informal

: probar

I can almost taste the finish line.
taste the good life
taste the pleasures

And because I didn't just, I didn't really taste yet the freedom.

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Examples

We would live in Italy for a year; we would taste our freedom to the full.

Academic text (2007)
It says you really can taste the difference.
l am so close to flying, guys, l can taste it.

Fantastic Four (2005)
I can almost taste it.

Air Buddies (2006)
I could just taste the adventure!

A Minecraft Movie (2025)
Experience is to taste things, to taste otherness.
It really does taste so beautiful.
Caroline was on her own; with no real friends, she began tasting the freedom of the streets.

Academic text (1998)
And once you've tasted freedom.

Hitler's Children (1943)
As we explored the vibrant street market, I was eager to taste all the exotic dishes offered by the local vendors.

Synonyms

to try

vsto taste

661 1.0

To taste a small amount of food or drink

is about briefly enjoying something new rather than sampling it

to degust

vsto taste

9.9

To taste and enjoy food or drink slowly and carefully

focuses on brief enjoyment rather than long careful appreciation

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 Long

to savor

47 4.1

to enjoy

∞ 1.0

to taste

Informal

133 2.7

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' adventure means to try or experience a little of it.