<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Anatomy: the roof of the mouth, consisting of an anterior bony portion (hard palate) and a posterior muscular portion (soft palate) that separate the oral cavity from the nasal cavity.</li><li>the sense of taste: It was a dinner to delight the palate.</li><li>intellectual or aesthetic taste; mental appreciation: She is said to have a discriminating palate for the arts.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) to find pleasing to the taste: My friend was very ill and could not palate much of anything.</li><li>to find acceptable or agreeable to the mind or feelings: Your position is hard to palate, because I believe there is such a thing as objective morality.</li></ul>