Meaning

A food made primarily of a mixture of raw or cold ingredients, typically vegetables, usually served with a dressing such as vinegar or mayonnaise..

Definitions by Sense

1. A food made primarily of a mixture of raw or cold ingredients, typically vegetables, usually served with a dressing such as vinegar or mayonnaise.
2. A raw vegetable of the kind used in salads.
3. (idiomatic) Any varied blend or mixture.
4. (chiefly UK) Lettuce.

Example Sentences

chicken salad

We'd like a couple of cheese salads and two Pepsis, please.

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.

At various times and in different areas salads, compounded of meats, spices, tubers have been treated as of aphrodisiac value.

sandwiches comprising a meat, a cheese, a salad, and a condiment

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'.

I prefer a little salad on my burger.

Word Forms

• salads
• sallet

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When Should You Use Salad?

Use salad when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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