- The roof of the mouth in vertebrates having a complete or partial separation of the oral and nasal cavities and consisting of the hard palate and the soft palate.
- Botany. The projecting part on the lower lip of a bilabiate corolla that closes the throat, as in a snapdragon.
- The sense of taste: delicacies pleasing to the most refined palate.
[Middle English, from Old French palat, from Latin palātum, perhaps of Etruscan origin.]





