Definition of: palate

(pal′it) noun
1. Anat. The roof of the mouth. The hard (or bony) palate, or anterior part, has a bony skeleton; the soft palate, or posterior division, is composed of muscular tissue and mucous membrane.
2. The sense of taste; relish: so used originally from the false notion that the palate is the organ of taste: a discriminating palate.
3. Intellectual taste; mental relish. ♦ Homophones: palet, palette, pallet, pallette. [<OF palat <L palatum palate]