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salad

[ sal-uhd ]

noun

  1. a usually cold dish consisting of vegetables, as lettuce, tomatoes, and cucumbers, covered with a dressing and sometimes containing seafood, meat, or eggs.
  2. any of various dishes consisting of foods, as meat, seafood, eggs, pasta, or fruit, prepared singly or combined, usually cut up, mixed with a dressing, and served cold:

    chicken salad; potato salad.

  3. any herb or green vegetable, as lettuce, used for salads or eaten raw.
  4. South Midland and Southern U.S. greens ( def 22b ).
  5. any mixture or assortment:

    The usual salad of writers, artists, and musicians attended the party.



salad

/ ˈsæləd /

noun

  1. a dish of raw vegetables, such as lettuce, tomatoes, etc, served as a separate course with cold meat, eggs, etc, or as part of a main course
  2. any dish of cold vegetables or fruit

    fruit salad

    potato salad

  3. any green vegetable used in such a dish, esp lettuce
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of salad1

1350–1400; Middle English salad ( e ) < Middle French salade < Old Provençal salada < Vulgar Latin *salāta, feminine past participle of *salāre to salt, equivalent to sal-, stem of sāl salt 1 + -āta -ate 1
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Word History and Origins

Origin of salad1

C15: from Old French salade, from Old Provençal salada, from salar to season with salt, from Latin sal salt
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Example Sentences

Make an even more flavorful and heartier potato salad by turning to this Dilled Potato Salad With Smoked Trout.

Make me a bowl of a chicken or tuna salad and I’m set for days.

Yeung’s pork substitute OmniPork is now on the menu across China at thousands of Taco Bell and Starbucks branches, where it is used to make everything from tacos to salads.

From Time

Rubio started as the salad maker in Dupont Circle and worked his way up the kitchen ladder, following Cashion around town.

Another day, the last of those thighs can be transformed into classic chicken salad, which it is scientifically impossible to get tired of, even after eating chicken several days in a row.

From Eater

A cold salad with French string beans is the perfect counterpoint.

Before serving, bake the cheese packages, combine the salad and vinaigrette, and serve.

A French green bean salad with warm goat cheese reminds Ina Garten of having lunch in Paris.

They are an undressed salad compared to a Pacific wild salmon.

I ordered a salad, ate it, and in the bathroom snuck a swig of Pepto.

The priest opposite looked up from his cold veal and potato salad and smiled.

Between the pastry and the dessert, have salad and cheese placed before each guest.

We had sandwiches and chicken salad and olives and three kinds of cake and ice cream for refreshments.

It was none less than the famous palm salad, about which so many travellers have told.

O cool in the summer is salad,And warm in the winter is love; And a poet shall sing you a balladDelicious thereon and thereof.

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