salad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: săʹləd
ipa: /ˈsæl.əd/
ipa: /ˈsæl.ɪd/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈsaləɖ/
note: Indic
ipa: /səˈlɑɖ/
note: Indic
ipa: /səˈlɑd̪/
ipa: /ˈsæl.ɪt/
rhymes: -æləd
Forms: form: salads
form: sallet
Etymology: PIE word
 *séh₂ls
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.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:
text: At various times and in different areas salads, compounded of meats, spices, tubers have been treated as of aphrodisiac value.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 213:
text: chicken salad
text: We'd like a couple of cheese salads and two Pepsis, please.
glosses: A food made primarily of a mixture of raw or cold ingredients, typically vegetables, usually served with a dressing such as vinegar or mayonnaise.
examples: text: romaine salad
text: kale salad
glosses: A food made primarily of a mixture of 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.
examples: text: sandwiches comprising a meat, a cheese, a salad, and a condiment
glosses: A raw vegetable of the kind used in salads.
examples: text: 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'.
ref: 2021 October 16, Gurvinder Singh, “Why Pakistan will fail”, in Guruwonder:
glosses: Any varied blend or mixture.
examples: text: I prefer a little salad on my burger.
glosses: Lettuce.
Hyponyms: angel salad
Bulgarian salad
Caesar salad
candle salad
Caprese salad
caprese salad
chef salad
chicken salad
Chilean salad
Chinese chicken salad
Cobb salad
congealed salad
corn salad
dandelion salad
egg salad
field salad
frog-eye salad
fruit salad
garden salad
Glasgow salad
gorilla salad
Greek salad
Israeli salad
jellied salad
Jello salad
jello salad
jumping salad
Michigan salad
millionaire's salad
mimosa salad
molded salad
Niçoise salad
Olivier salad
pasta salad
Pittsburgh salad
poke salad
potato salad
rainbow salad
rocket salad
Russian salad
Serbian salad
seven-layer salad
shopska salad
Snickers salad
taco salad
tomato salad
tossed salad
tuna salad
Waldorf salad
Watergate salad
wedge salad
word salad
Derived terms: angry fruit salad
cabbage salad
Cæsar salad
chef's salad
chicken salad air
combination salad
composed salad
dinner salad
fiesta salad
gelatine salad
gelatin salad
green salad
ham salad
jello salad
jewel salad
macaroni salad
mac salad
malfouf salad
Moscow salad
perfection salad
poké salad
salad bar
salad bowl
salad burnet
salad cream
salad days
salad dodger
salad-dodger
salad dressing
salad fork
salad greens
salading
saladless
saladlike
salad-oil
salad oil
salad onion
salad plate
salad shaker
salad shooter
salad spinner
salad spoon
salad tossing
salady
salad year
salad years
seafoam salad
side salad
sopska salad
southwestern salad
southwest salad
Stolichny salad
toss salad
toss someone's salad
Related terms: taramosalata