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food
a) [uncountable and countable] the feeling that is produced by a particular food or drink when you put it in your mouth [= flavour]
b) [uncountable]HB the sense by which you know one food from another :
c) if you have a taste of some food or drink, you put a small amount in your mouth to try it : 
You must have a taste of the fruitcake.
have a taste (of something)
You must have a taste of the fruitcake.2 the kind of things that someone likes COLLOCATIONS 
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taste in music/clothes/men etc have similar/different tastes develop/acquire a taste for something (=start to like something) suit/satisfy/cater for somebody's tastes (=provide what someone likes) have expensive tastes (=like expensive things) something is a matter of taste (=it depends on what kind of things you like) personal taste musical taste (=the kind of music someone likes) be too bright/modern/dark etc for somebody's taste (=used when saying that you did not like something because it was too bright, modern, dark etc) be to somebody's taste (=if something is to your taste, you like it) there's no accounting for taste (=used humorously to say that you do not understand why someone has chosen something) something is an acquired taste (=people only usually start to like something after they have tried it several times)
what you like
[uncountable and countable]COLLOCATIONS taste in music/clothes/men etc have similar/different tastes develop/acquire a taste for something (=start to like something) suit/satisfy/cater for somebody's tastes (=provide what someone likes) have expensive tastes (=like expensive things) something is a matter of taste (=it depends on what kind of things you like) personal taste musical taste (=the kind of music someone likes) be too bright/modern/dark etc for somebody's taste (=used when saying that you did not like something because it was too bright, modern, dark etc) be to somebody's taste (=if something is to your taste, you like it) there's no accounting for taste (=used humorously to say that you do not understand why someone has chosen something) something is an acquired taste (=people only usually start to like something after they have tried it several times)
3 someone's judgment when they choose clothes, decorations etc
judgment
[uncountable] taste in Some people have really bad taste in clothes.
Some people have really bad taste in clothes.4 the quality of being acceptable and not offensive :
what is acceptable/not offensive
[uncountable] be in bad/poor etc taste (=likely to offend people) She acknowledged her remark had been in bad taste.
She acknowledged her remark had been in bad taste.5 a short experience of something that shows you what it is like The autumn storms gave us a taste of what was to come (=showed what would happen later).
experience
[usually singular]The autumn storms gave us a taste of what was to come (=showed what would happen later).6 the feeling that you have after an experience, especially a bad experience : the bitter taste of failure the sweet taste of victory
feeling
[singular]the bitter taste of failurethe sweet taste of victory7 if you add salt, spices etc to taste, you add as much as you think makes it taste right - used in instructions in cook books : Add salt to taste.
... to taste
Add salt to taste.➔ give somebody a taste of their own medicine
at medicine (4)WORD FOCUS: tasteWORD FOCUS: taste delicious/tasty tastes very good
disgusting tastes very bad
hot/spicy has a lot of spices
bland boring and with not very much taste
sweet has a lot of sugar
salty has a lot of salt
sour used about fruit that is not sweet
bitter used about coffee, chocolate, or medicine that is not at all sweettaste ➔ flavour
