foretaste

English

Etymology 1

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

Noun

foretaste (plural foretastes)

1. A taste beforehand.
2. A sample taken in anticipation; an experience undergone in advance.
   • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

     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.

Synonyms

• foresmack (rare, nonstandard)
• pregustation

Translations

taste taken in advance

• Bulgarian: предвкусване (bg) n (predvkusvane)
• Danish: forsmag c
• Dutch: voorproefje (nl) n
• Finnish: esimaku
• French: avant-goût (fr) m
• Hungarian: ízelítő (hu)
• Italian: presentimento (it) m, pregustazione f, prelibazione f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forsmak m

  Nynorsk: forsmak m, føresmak m

• Occitan: abansgost m, abanstast m
• Plautdietsch: Väaschmak m
• Polish: przedsmak m
• Russian: предвкуше́ние (ru) n (predvkušénije)
• Swedish: försmak (sv) n

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Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} voorproefje (nl) n, ^{(please verify)} voorsmaak (nl)
• French: ^{(please verify)} avant-goût (fr) m
• German: ^{(please verify)} Vorgeschmack (de) m
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} pregustazione f

See also

• aftertaste

Etymology 2

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

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.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise lost:

     [...] foretast'd fruit, Profan'd first by the serpent [...]

Derived terms

• foretaster

Translations

to taste beforehand

• Bulgarian: предвкусвам (bg) (predvkusvam)
• Finnish: maistaa etukäteen

to enjoy by anticipation

• Bulgarian: предвкусвам (bg) (predvkusvam)
• Portuguese: prelibar (pt)

to taste before another

Anagrams

• forestate