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.

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

   potato salad

   fruit 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

If you want to make a feast of it, you can add the classic salads and sides.

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One of its common names, Jimson Weed, refers to Jamestown, where visiting British forces mistakenly ate the weed in a salad and spent 11 days in a stupefied delirium.

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A chopped salad and fries for lunch There’s a place called Angelini Osteria that has a salad that I really enjoy.

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“I thought I was having a stroke, like an elephant was on my head,” Michaelis said from her garden, while she slowly made her way through a tomato and mozzarella salad her husband had prepared.

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Retailers often have a slew of suppliers to satisfy their fresh food needs, using for instance one supplier for soup, another for grilled chicken products and a third for potato salad, analysts said.

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