table salt

American  

noun

1. salt.

---

table salt British  

noun

1. salt that is used at table rather than for cooking

---

Etymology

Origin of table salt

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

Jerry Jones, the NFL’s premier mover and shaker, sprinkled table salt onto the rim of his beer can in his makeshift office at Dallas Cowboys training camp in Oxnard.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2026

The main ingredients are powdered iron and table salt.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025

I also feel entirely at liberty with the table salt.

From Slate • Aug. 17, 2025

One option is a sodium-ion battery, where table salt and biomass from the forest industry make up the main raw materials.

From Science Daily • Dec. 13, 2023

Ahead of them lay an island—a line of sand so white, it might have been pure table salt.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan