salad bowl

American  

noun

• salad bowls
  plural

1. a large bowl in which a salad, especially a tossed salad, is served.

2. a small bowl for individual servings of salad.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• salad bowls
  plural

Etymology

Origin of salad bowl

First recorded in 1765–75

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

salad bowl

Others I spoke with will be getting their nutrition from cooked veggies and bringing those in, as opposed to ordering from a slop or salad bowl service.

From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026

"There were several weeks when everything went. I had no voice at one point and I was just coughing up industrial levels of mucus. barrages of it into a little Tupperware salad bowl."

From BBC ● May 4, 2024

Drain and dry potatoes once cooled and cut in half or in quarters to make bite-size and place in a large salad bowl.

From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2023

Still, Republicans retain pockets of political clout in the Southern California suburbs and the state’s vast rural stretches, including the Central Valley farm belt, sometimes called America’s salad bowl for its bountiful agricultural production.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 5, 2023

I couldn't take my eyes off the pale, stubby white fingers traveling back and forth from the poet's salad bowl to the poet's mouth with one dripping lettuce leaf after another.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath