salad

/ˈsæl.əd/

Etymology

From Middle English salade, from Old French salade, borrowed from Northern Italian salada, salata (compare insalata), from Vulgar Latin *salāta, from *salāre, from Latin saliō, from sal (“salt”). Vegetables were seasoned with brine or salty oil-and-vinegar dressings during Roman times.

salad means A food made primarily of one or more raw or cold ingredients, typically vegetables, usually served with a dressing such as vinegar or mayonnaise. Lexicurio rates it Distinctive — a strength score of 69 out of 100.

salad is pronounced /ˈsæl.əd/.

noun

A food made primarily of one or more raw or cold ingredients, typically vegetables, usually served with a dressing such as vinegar or mayonnaise.“Lafeu. ’Twas a good lady, ’twas a good lady: we may pick a thousand salads ere we light on such another herb. Clown. Indeed, sir, she was the sweet marjoram of the salad, or rather, the herb of grace.”
A food made primarily of one or more raw or cold ingredients, typically vegetables, usually served with a dressing such as vinegar or mayonnaise.; Especially, such a mixture whose principal base is greens, most especially lettuce.“romaine salad”
One or more raw vegetables of the kind used in salads.“sandwiches comprising a meat, a cheese, a salad, and a condiment”
Any varied blend or mixture.“Rebuffed by the Arabs and then the Iranians for trying to be part of them and their societies, Pakistan is just a hotchpotch salad of people supposedly bound together by the myth of Muslim 'Ummah'.”
Lettuce.“I prefer a little salad on my burger.”