{
    "term": "taste",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the particular quality that different foods and drinks have that allows you to recognize them when you put them in your mouth",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a sweet/salty/bitter/sour taste"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I don't like the taste of olives."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This dish has an unusual combination of tastes and textures."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The soup has very little taste."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I never have sweet drinks with food—it spoils the taste."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He sensed the taste of blood in his mouth."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I had a strong coffee to take away the nasty taste of the food."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She savoured the taste of the champagne."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The drink left a bitter taste in his mouth."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You need to use fresh herbs to get the authentic Italian taste."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Cooking and eating"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["delicious", "fresh", "nice"],
                "verb + taste": ["have", "leave", "affect"],
                "taste + noun": ["buds"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the sense you have that allows you to recognize different foods and drinks when you put them in your mouth",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I've lost my sense of taste."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a small quantity of food or drink that you try in order to see what it is like",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Just have a taste of this cheese."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Do you want a taste?"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["brief", "little", "small"],
                "verb + taste": ["get", "have", "taste"],
                "preposition": ["taste of"],
                "phrases": ["a taste of things to come"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "a short experience of something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "This was my first taste of live theatre."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Although we didn't know it, this incident was **a taste of things to come**."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["brief", "little", "small"],
                "verb + taste": ["get", "have", "taste"],
                "preposition": ["taste of"],
                "phrases": ["a taste of things to come"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "a person’s ability to choose things that people recognize as being of good quality or appropriate",
            "sensetop": "taste in something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He has very **good taste** in music.",
                    "contextForm": "taste in something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They've got more money than taste."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's famous for her impeccable taste and style."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The room was furnished with taste."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The remark showed a deplorable lack of taste."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The designer has exercised good taste in her choice of fabrics."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her work is executed with impeccable taste."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Contemporary arbiters of taste dismissed his paintings as rubbish."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Preferences and decisions"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["excellent", "exquisite", "fine"],
                "verb + taste": ["reflect", "show", "exercise"],
                "preposition": ["in … taste", "with taste", "taste in"],
                "phrases": [
                    "an arbiter of taste",
                    "in the best possible taste",
                    "in the worst possible taste"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "what a person likes or prefers",
            "sensetop": "taste for somethingtaste in somethingto somebody's taste",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "You can adapt the recipe to suit your personal taste."
                },
                {
                    "text": "That trip gave me a taste for foreign travel.",
                    "contextForm": "taste for something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to develop/acquire a taste for luxury"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He has very expensive taste in clothes.",
                    "contextForm": "taste in something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The colour and style is **a matter of** personal **taste**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Modern art is not to everyone's taste.",
                    "contextForm": "to somebody's taste"
                },
                {
                    "text": "There are trips to suit all tastes."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They have a taste for adventure."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her choice of outfit demonstrated her taste for the outrageous."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Now he is retired he has time to indulge his tastes for writing and politics."
                },
                {
                    "text": "People with a taste for complex plots will enjoy this book."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her music appeals to popular taste."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His tastes run to the exotic."
                },
                {
                    "text": "If fishing is not to your taste, there are many other leisure activities on offer."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The house reflected his tastes."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The music was too modern for my taste."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You obviously share her taste in reading."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He has an unusual taste in music."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Preferences and decisions"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["catholic", "eclectic", "varied"],
                "verb + taste": ["have", "like", "share"],
                "taste + verb": ["lie", "run", "change"],
                "preposition": ["for somebody’s taste", "to taste", "to your taste"],
                "phrases": [
                    "a man/​woman of … tastes",
                    "a matter of (personal) taste",
                    "a wide range/​variety of tastes"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a thing that you do not like much at first but gradually learn to like",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Abstract art is an acquired taste."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Preferences and decisions"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to be offensive and not at all appropriate",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Most of his jokes were in very poor taste."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to be appropriate and not at all offensive",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The love scenes are all done in the best possible taste."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to make you feel upset or ashamed afterwards",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The whole business left a bad taste in my mouth."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "the same bad treatment that you have given to others",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Let the bully have a taste of his own medicine."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to say how difficult it is to understand why somebody likes somebody/something that you do not like at all",
            "labels": "(saying)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "They think it's wonderful—oh well, there's no accounting for taste."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "in the quantity that is needed to make something taste the way you prefer",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Add salt and pepper to taste."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/teɪst/",
                "audio": "ta/taste/taste__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/teɪst/",
                "audio": "ta/taste/taste__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English (also in the sense ‘touch’): from Old French tast (noun), taster (verb) ‘touch, try, taste’, perhaps based on a blend of Latin tangere ‘to touch’ and gustare ‘to taste’."
}