salad

[ sal-uhd ]
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noun
  1. a usually cold dish consisting of vegetables, as lettuce, tomatoes, and cucumbers, covered with a dressing and sometimes containing seafood, meat, or eggs.

  2. any of various dishes consisting of foods, as meat, seafood, eggs, pasta, or fruit, prepared singly or combined, usually cut up, mixed with a dressing, and served cold: chicken salad; potato salad.

  1. any herb or green vegetable, as lettuce, used for salads or eaten raw.

  2. South Midland and Southern U.S. greens (def. 22b).

  3. any mixture or assortment: The usual salad of writers, artists, and musicians attended the party.

Origin of salad

1
1350–1400; Middle English salad(e) <Middle French salade<Old Provençal salada<Vulgar Latin *salāta, feminine past participle of *salāre to salt, equivalent to sal-, stem of sālsalt1 + -āta-ate1

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How to use salad in a sentence

  • Salads, and fish of various kinds, were dressed in a peculiar manner; poultry and other things in the French fashion.

  • I have a friend who is subject to headaches, and finds relief from them by a diet of meat, salads, and fresh fruits exclusively.

  • At its best, April is the tenderest of tender salads made crisp by ice or snow water.

    A Year in the Fields | John Burroughs
  • And in summer I should have creamed corn or peas on toast, and lots of salads of plain cooked vegetables.

    Living on a Little | Caroline French Benton
  • A vision of iced drinks, tempting salads, white napery, and an attentive steward mocked me with past recollections.

    The Riddle of the Sands | Erskine Childers

British Dictionary definitions for salad

salad

/ (ˈsæləd) /


noun
  1. a dish of raw vegetables, such as lettuce, tomatoes, etc, served as a separate course with cold meat, eggs, etc, or as part of a main course

  2. any dish of cold vegetables or fruit: potato salad; fruit salad

  1. any green vegetable used in such a dish, esp lettuce

Origin of salad

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C15: from Old French salade, from Old Provençal salada, from salar to season with salt, from Latin sal salt

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