salad

[ sal-uhd ]

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.

3. any herb or green vegetable, as lettuce, used for salads or eaten raw.
4. South Midland and Southern U.S. greens ( def 22b ).
5. any mixture or assortment:

   The usual salad of writers, artists, and musicians attended the party.

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

   fruit salad

   potato salad

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of salad¹

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 sāl salt ¹ + -āta -ate ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of salad¹

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

Example Sentences

A cold salad with French string beans is the perfect counterpoint.

From The Daily Beast

Before serving, bake the cheese packages, combine the salad and vinaigrette, and serve.

From The Daily Beast

A French green bean salad with warm goat cheese reminds Ina Garten of having lunch in Paris.

From The Daily Beast

They are an undressed salad compared to a Pacific wild salmon.

From The Daily Beast

I ordered a salad, ate it, and in the bathroom snuck a swig of Pepto.

From The Daily Beast

The priest opposite looked up from his cold veal and potato salad and smiled.

From Project Gutenberg

Between the pastry and the dessert, have salad and cheese placed before each guest.

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We had sandwiches and chicken salad and olives and three kinds of cake and ice cream for refreshments.

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It was none less than the famous palm salad, about which so many travellers have told.

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O cool in the summer is salad,And warm in the winter is love; And a poet shall sing you a balladDelicious thereon and thereof.

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Related Words

• potato salad