palate

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The roof of the mouth, which separates the mouth from the nasal passage.

   The hot soup burned the roof of his mouth, scalding his palate.

2. 2
   noun

   A person's sense of taste and ability to appreciate different flavours.

   Years of tasting wine had given her a refined palate.

3. 3
   noun

   A liking or appreciation for something; a taste for it.

   The film was too violent for my palate.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂-? Proto-Indo-European *pel-? Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-osder. Latin palātumder. Old French palatbor. Middle English palate English palate From Middle English palate, from Latin palātum (“roof of the mouth, palate”), perhaps of Etruscan origin.

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