palate

[Pal·ate]

Touch your tongue to the top of your mouth. What you're touching is your palate. Palate is often used when discussing taste in a broader sense, as in: chocolate cake is pleasing to the palate.

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The roof of the mouth.

Noun
the upper surface of the mouth that separates the oral and nasal cavities

n.
The roof of the mouth.

n.
Relish; taste; liking; -- a sense originating in the mistaken notion that the palate is the organ of taste.

n.
Fig.: Mental relish; intellectual taste.

n.
A projection in the throat of such flowers as the snapdragon.

v. t.
To perceive by the taste.

Palate

Pal"ate , n. [L. palatum: cf. F. palais, Of. also palat.] 1. (Anat.) The roof of the mouth. &hand; The fixed portion, or palate proper, supported by the maxillary and palatine bones, is called the hard palate to distinguish it from the membranous and muscular curtain which separates the cavity of the mouth from the pharynx and is called the soft palate, or velum. 2. Relish; taste; liking; -- a sense originating in the mistaken notion that the palate is the organ of taste.

Hard task! to hit the palate of such guests.

3. Fig.: Mental relish; intellectual taste. T. Baker. 4. (Bot.) A projection in the throat of such flowers as the snapdragon.

Palate

Pal"ate, v. t. To perceive by the taste. [Obs.] Shak.

The roof of the mouth.

To perceive by the taste.

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Usage Examples

I don't find it a struggle to maintain a healthy diet now as my palate has changed. I don't crave rich food.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Plunderous is the palate I gift to you, openly I hug the universe of our friendship expanding its outer limit.

I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.