Salsa Definition

sälsə
noun
A hot sauce made with chilies, tomatoes, onions, etc.
Webster's New World
A kind of Latin American dance music of Afro-Cuban and Puerto Rican origin, influenced by jazz and rock and usually played at fast tempos.
Webster's New World
A dance for couples performed to this music.
American Heritage
verb
(intransitive) To dance the salsa.
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Other Word Forms of Salsa

Noun

Singular:
salsa
Plural:
salsas

Origin of Salsa

  • From Spanish salsa (“sauce"), from Latin salsus (“salted"), whence also sauce (via Old French).

    From Wiktionary

  • American Spanish from Spanish sauce from Old Spanish from Vulgar Latin salsa sauce

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Salsa Sentence Examples

  • Friendly and cheerful with delicious food, do n't miss the homemade salsa !

  • Try locally smoked chicken with mango and basil salsa or Cornish ham and Cheddar with scrumpy apple chutney and house salad.

  • Clave A s yet the most robust criterion for defining a piece of music as salsa music is that it should obey the clave A s yet the most robust criterion for defining a piece of music as salsa music is that it should obey the clave.

  • So, having the same sensitivity to implied clave that a salsa musician has would be a handy little skill for a dancer.

  • More information about cycling More information about walking Learn a new skill Do you want to learn Salsa or Chinese cookery?

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Words Starting With

SSASAL

Words Ending With

ASALSA

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