foretaste

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
动词 v.
  1. To taste beforehand. transitive
  2. To taste before possession; have previous experience of; enjoy by anticipation. transitive
  3. To taste before another. transitive
    — [...] foretast'd fruit, Profan'd first by the serpent [...]

词形变化

foretastes plural foretastes present,singular,third-person foretasting participle,present foretasted participle,past foretasted past

词汇关系

近义词
foresmack pregustation
衍生词
foretaster
相关词
aftertaste

词源

词源 1
From Middle English fortaste, equivalent to fore- + taste (noun).
词源 2
From Middle English fortasten, equivalent to fore- + taste (verb).
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