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 any dish of cold vegetables or fruit: potato salad, fruit salad any green vegetable used in such a dish, esp lettuce
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sal•ad /ˈsæləd/USA pronunciation
n.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025- Fooda cold dish of raw vegetables, served with a dressing: [uncountable]We had salad with dinner.[countable]many different salads at the restaurant.
- Fooda dish of raw or cold foods, mixed with mayonnaise or other dressing: [uncountable]potato salad.[countable]delicious pasta salads on the table.
sal•ad
(sal′əd),USA pronunciation n.
- Fooda usually cold dish consisting of vegetables, as lettuce, tomatoes, and cucumbers, covered with a dressing and sometimes containing seafood, meat, or eggs.
- Foodany 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.
- Foodany herb or green vegetable, as lettuce, used for salads or eaten raw.
- Dialect Terms[South Midland and Southern U.S.]greens.
- any mixture or assortment:The usual salad of writers, artists, and musicians attended the party.
- Vulgar Latin *salāta, feminine past participle of *salāre to salt, equivalent. to sal-, stem of sāl salt1 + -āta -ate1
- Old Provencal salada
- Middle French salade
- Middle English salad(e) 1350–1400
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