salad
noun
a usually cold dish consisting of vegetables, as lettuce, tomatoes, and cucumbers, covered with a dressing and sometimes containing seafood, meat, or eggs.
salads
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pluralof salad.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Over the summer, the restaurant industry also contended with a cyclospora outbreak that made more consumers squeamish about ordering things like salads.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
He said people have been eating salads from UK products "all summer" but added: "The issue though is serious, the aphids bloom in June and again in August/September."
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
She has eaten more Caesar salads than she can reliably count and formally reviewed dozens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
Here’s how one of L.A.’s freshest new restaurants makes grains, greens and veggies sing — and how home cooks can replicate its grain bowls and salads.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
Grandma always had salads or green vegetables at every dinner, no matter what she was serving.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
