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foretaste

foretaste noun: a taste beforehand.

Noun

foretaste (plural foretastes)

  1. A taste beforehand.
  2. A sample taken in anticipation; an experience undergone in advance.
    • When she sang in the kirk, folk have told me that they had a foretaste of the musick of the New Jerusalem, and when she came in by the village of Caulds old men stottered to their doors to look at her.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
    • About two weeks ago I had another foretaste of success and immediately on it a veritable disaster.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC

Verb

foretaste (third-person singular simple present foretastes, present participle foretasting, simple past and past participle foretasted)

  1. (transitive) To taste beforehand.
  2. (transitive) To taste before possession; have previous experience of; enjoy by anticipation.
  3. (transitive) To taste before another.
    • [...] foretast'd fruit, Profan'd first by the serpent [...]1667, John Milton, Paradise lost

foretaste meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

foretaste in Urdu

تجربہ, توقع, امید, امید کرنا

foretaste in Malayalam

preview, sample, taster
രുചിനോട്ടം, മുൻരുചി, മുന്നനുഭവം, ഉപ്പുനോക്കൽ, നേരത്തെ രുചി അറിയൽ, പ്രിവ്യു

foretaste in Kannada

ಪೂರ್ವಾನುಭವ, ಮುನ್ನರಿವು, ಪೂರ್ವ ಸೂಚನೆ, ಮುನ್ಸವಿಹ

Synonyms of foretaste

Forms of foretaste

Noun
pluralforetastes
Verb
third-person singular presentforetastes
present participleforetasting
past participleforetasted
pastforetasted

Origin of foretaste

From Middle English fortaste, equivalent to fore- + taste (noun).

From Middle English fortasten, equivalent to fore- + taste (verb).

Words formed from foretaste

Questions about foretaste

What does foretaste mean?
Foretaste means a taste beforehand.
What is foretaste in Urdu?
Foretaste in Urdu is تجربہ, توقع, امید. See Foretaste meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is foretaste?
Foretaste can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of foretaste?
The plural of foretaste is foretastes.

Words near foretaste in the dictionary

  1. foretales
  2. foretalk
  3. foretarsal
  4. foretarsi
  5. foretarsus
  6. foretaste
  7. foretasted
  8. foretaster
  9. foretasters
  10. foretastes
  11. foretasting

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: foretaste (page history and authors); foretaste (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); foretaste (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); foretaste (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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