salad

American  

[sal-uhd] / ˈsæl əd /

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.

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salad British  

/ 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

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Etymology

Origin of salad

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

Example Sentences

The new guidelines take a much harder line on added sugars, found in everything from cookies to salad dressing and bread.

From The Wall Street Journal

They are tied to concrete situations, such as choosing between salad and pasta or deciding whether to skip a serving.

From Science Daily

Pre-cooked gnocchi Roasted on a sheet pan with vegetables, slipped into chicken soup or dressed simply for a low-effort pasta salad.

From Salon

I eat grass-fed, organic meat, and I eat a lot of fish, sushi and salads.

From The Wall Street Journal

Extra shredded carrots were saved for bread or pickled for a salad.

From Salon

Related Words

• potato salad