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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Palate \Pal"ate\, n. [L. palatum: cf. F. palais, Of. also
     palat.]
     1. (Anat.) The roof of the mouth.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: 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.
           [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Relish; taste; liking; -- a sense originating in the
        mistaken notion that the palate is the organ of taste.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Hard task! to hit the palate of such guests. --Pope.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. Fig.: Mental relish; intellectual taste. --T. Baker.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     4. (Bot.) A projection in the throat of such flowers as the
        snapdragon.
        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Palate \Pal"ate\, v. t.
     To perceive by the taste. [Obs.] --Shak.
     [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Palate \Pal"ate\, n. [L. palatum: cf. F. palais, Of. also
     palat.]
     1. (Anat.) The roof of the mouth.
  
     Note: 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. --Pope.
  
     3. Fig.: Mental relish; intellectual taste. --T. Baker.
  
     4. (Bot.) A projection in the throat of such flowers as the
        snapdragon.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

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

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  palate
       n : the upper surface of the mouth that separates the oral and
           nasal cavities [syn: roof of the mouth]

From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  palate
     Αγγλικά n.
     1 o ουρανίσκος
     2 η αίσθηση της γεύσης

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  palate
     Latin vb.
     (inflection of la pālō  2 p pres actv impr)
     Middle English n.
     1 The palate; the top of the mouth (gloss: including the uvula).
     2 One's sense of taste (gloss: the palate was believed to be the
  source of this).
     Romanian n.
     (plural of ro palat)

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  palate
     n.
     1 (lb en anatomy) The roof of the mouth, separating the cavity of the
  mouth and nose in vertebrates. (from 14th c.)
     2 # (lb en zoology) A part associated with the mouth of certain
  invertebrates, somewhat analagous to the palate of vertebrates. (from
  20th c.)
     3 # (lb en entomology rare) The hypopharynx of an insect. (from 19th
  c.)
     4 # (lb en botany) A projection in the throat of certain bilabiate
  flowers as the snapdragon. (from 18th c.)
     5 # (lb en cookery historical) The palate of an animal, as an item of
  food. (from 17th c.)
     6 (lb en figuratively) A person's ability to distinguish between and
  appreciate different flavors. (from 14th c.)
     7 (lb en figuratively) mental relish; a liking or affinity for
  something. (from 15th c.)
     vb.
     (lb en transitive nonstandard) To relish; to find palatable.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  palate
     Latin vb.
     (inflection of la pālō  2 p pres actv impr)
     Middle English n.
     1 The palate; the top of the mouth (gloss: including the uvula).
     2 One's sense of taste (gloss: the palate was believed to be the
  source of this).
     Romanian n.
     (plural of ro palat)

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  palate
     Latin vb.
     (inflection of la pālō  2 p pres actv impr)
     Middle English n.
     1 The palate; the top of the mouth (gloss: including the uvula).
     2 One's sense of taste (gloss: the palate was believed to be the
  source of this).

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  palate
     Englanti n.
     1 (yhteys k=en anatomia) suulaki
     2 makuaisti
     3 (yhteys kuva k=en) maku, mieltymys

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  palate
     Engelska n.
     (tagg kat=anatomi språk=en) gom

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Palate /pˈalət/
  الذوق

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  palate //ˈpæl.ət// 
  1. вкус
  ability to distinguish between and appreciate different flavors
  2. интерес
  figuratively: relish; taste; liking
  3. небце
  roof of the mouth

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  palate /pˈalət/ 
  patro ((v ústní dutině))
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  palate /pˈalət/
  Gaumen  [anat.]

From English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:eng-ell ]

  palate /pˈalət/
  
  ουρανίσκος, υπερώα

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  palate //ˈpæl.ət// 
  1. makuaisti
  ability to distinguish between and appreciate different flavors
  2. maku
  figuratively: relish; taste; liking
  3. kitalaki, suulaki
  roof of the mouth

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  palate /pˈalət/ 
  1. तालू
        "Frogs have a soft palate."
        "मेढ़क का तालू मुलायम होता है"
  2. स्वाद होना
        "She has a good palate for fruits."
        "उसका फलों के प्रति स्वाद अच्छा है."
  3. रुचि
        "She has no palate for such jokes"
        "उसे एसे मज़ाक के लिए कोई रूची नहीं है."

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  palate /pˈalət/
  naklonost, nepce, tek, ukus

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  palate /pˈalət/
  1. szájpad
  2. szájpadlás
  3. íny
  4. ízlés

From English-日本語 (にほんご) FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-jpn ]

  palate //ˈpæl.ət// 
  口蓋, 上顎
  roof of the mouth

From English-Norsk FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-nor ]

  palate //ˈpæl.ət// 
  gane
  roof of the mouth

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  palate /ˈpælɪt/ 
   1.  podniebienie
   2.  smak

From English-Portuguese FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-por ]

  palate /pˈalət/ 
  palato

From English-Svenska FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-swe ]

  palate //ˈpæl.ət// 
  gom
  roof of the mouth

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  palate /pˈalət/
  1. damak
  2. tat alma duyusu
  3. zevk, haz, hoşlanma. cleft palate doğuştan yarık damak. hard palate damak, sert damak. soft palate damağın geri kısmı, yumuşak damak, damak eteği.

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ˈpæɫət/, /ˈpæɫɪt/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  80 Moby Thesaurus words for "palate":
     aftertaste, alveolar ridge, alveolus, apex, appreciation,
     appreciation of differences, appreciativeness, artistic judgment,
     arytenoid cartilages, back, bitter, blade, connoisseurship,
     critical niceness, criticalness, delicacy, discriminating taste,
     discriminatingness, discrimination, discriminativeness, dorsum,
     fastidiousness, feel, feeling, fine palate, finesse, flavor, gust,
     gusto, hard palate, heart, judiciousness, larynx, lingua, lips,
     making distinctions, nasal cavity, niceness of distinction, nicety,
     oral cavity, pharyngeal cavity, pharynx, refined discrimination,
     refined palate, refinement, relish, salt, sapidity, sapor, savor,
     savoriness, selectiveness, sense, sensibility, sensitivity, smack,
     soft palate, sour, speech organ, stomach, subtlety, sweet, syrinx,
     tact, tactfulness, tang, taste, taste bud, teeth, teeth ridge, tip,
     tongue, tooth, velum, vocal chink, vocal cords, vocal folds,
     vocal processes, voice box, zest
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  n. 上颚,味觉,趣味;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     n. 上颚,味觉,趣味

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