salad
A food made primarily of one or more raw or cold ingredients, typically vegetables, usually served with a dressing such as vinegar or mayonnaise.
Other meanings
Especially, such a mixture whose principal base is , most especially .
One or more raw vegetables of the kind used in salads.
“sandwiches comprising a meat, a cheese, a salad, and a condiment”
A kind of
- dish
Kinds of salad
- potato salad
- pasta salad
- fruit salad
- herring salad
- tuna fish salad
- chicken salad
- molded salad
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "saliō".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “salad” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.