A taster is someone whose job is to taste different wines, teas, or other foods or drinks, in order to test their quality.
The world's best job is being advertised - chief chocolate taster .
2. countable noun [usually singular]
If you refer to something as atasterof something greater, or of something that will come later, you mean that it gives you an idea what that thing is like, and often makes you interested in it or want more of it.
[mainly British]
...a taster of things to come.
The book is essentially a taster for those unfamiliar with the subject.
regional note: in AM, usually use taste
taster in British English
(ˈteɪstə)
noun
1.
a person who samples food or drink for quality
2.
any device used in tasting or sampling
3.
a person employed, esp formerly, to taste food and drink prepared for a king, etc, to test for poison
4.
a sample or preview of a product, experience, etc, intended to stimulate interest in the product, experience, etc, itself
the single serves as a taster for the band's new album
taster in American English
(ˈteɪstər)
noun
1.
a person who tastes
; specif.,
a.
a person employed to test the quality of wines, teas, etc. by tasting
b.
a servant who tastes food and drink prepared as for a sovereign, to detect poisoning
2.
any of several devices used for tasting, sampling, or testing
Word origin
ME tastour < Anglo-Fr
Examples of 'taster' in a sentence
taster
This is a taster of great things to come.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
The opening gala began with a 90-minute taster menu of acts plucked from the festival schedule.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
Is it the perfect taster for the album?
The Sun (2007)
You can tell a great deal about a leader from his food taster.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
But it gives you a perfect taster menu.
The Sun (2013)
Clubs usually run taster days for beginners while the organisation runs sailing courses and offers exams to prove competence.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Sometimes we just want a taster.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
No encores, but a delightful taster for great things surely to come.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
We went for the taster menu and were not disappointed, really superb food.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
This was just a taster menu, the celebs have worse coming.
The Sun (2015)
Gone were the taster menus of bits and bobs, a nasty recent fashion.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
A quarter offer paid internships and a third run open days and other taster experiences.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Working Links are running taster courses with employers for people who want to try out a call centre career.
The Sun (2010)
In fact, you can tell most of it from the fact that he has a food taster at all.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
To show that bumping off rivals is a universal feature of power politics, the food taster persists into the modern era.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
A tantalising taster from new album Tomorrow.
The Sun (2009)
Interior design Many of the big London schools offer short taster courses.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
In Merseyside 250 young people have attended taster days this summer.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Free one-day taster courses run throughout the year to give prospective students an idea of what studying at Northumbria would be like.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
OK, we've reached the end of my taster menu for the mind.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
It takes five years to train a tea taster, including a year working overseas, with recruits given increasing amounts of responsibility as their training progresses.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
In other languages
taster
British English: taster NOUN
A taster is someone whose job is to taste different wines, teas, or other foods or drinks, in order to test their quality.