Palate Definition

pălĭt

palates

noun

palates

The roof of the mouth, consisting of a hard, bony forward part (the hard palate) and a soft, fleshy back part (the soft palate, or velum)

Webster's New World

The projecting part on the lower lip of a bilabiate corolla that closes the throat, as in a snapdragon.

American Heritage

Sense of taste: the palate was incorrectly thought to be the organ of taste.

Webster's New World

Intellectual taste; liking.

Webster's New World

Synonyms:

verb

(nonstandard) To relish; to find palatable.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Palate

Singular:

palate

Plural:

palates

From Middle English, from Old French palat, from Latin palātum (“roof of the mouth, palate"), perhaps of Etruscan origin.

From Wiktionary
Middle English from Old French palat from Latin palātum perhaps of Etruscan origin

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition