Salad Definition
săləd
salads
noun
A dish, usually cold, of raw or sometimes cooked vegetables or fruits in various combinations, served with a dressing, or molded in gelatin, and sometimes with seafood, poultry, eggs, etc. added.
Webster's New World
The course of a meal consisting of this dish.
American Heritage
Lettuce.
Webster's New World
Any green plant or herb used for such a dish or eaten raw.
Webster's New World
A finely chopped or ground food mixed with mayonnaise, seasonings, etc. and served as on lettuce or in a sandwich.
Tuna salad, egg salad sandwich.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
- greens
- associated word: acetarious
- slaw
- aspic
- mélange (French).
- mélange (French)
- combination
- mixture
- salad greens
Other Word Forms of Salad
Noun
Singular:
salad
Plural:
saladsOrigin of Salad
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Middle English salade from Old French possibly from Old Provençal salada from Vulgar Latin salāta from feminine past participle of *salāre to salt from Latin sāl salt sal- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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From Old French, borrowed from Northern Italian salada, salata (compare insalata), from Vulgar Latin *salāta, from *salāre, from Latin saliō, from sal (“salt").
From Wiktionary
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