salad

noun
/ˈsæl.əd/

Etymology

PIE word *sḗh₂l 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.

  1. derived from saliō
  2. derived from salada
  3. derived from salade
  4. inherited from salade

Definitions

  1. A food made primarily of a mixture of raw or cold ingredients, typically vegetables,…

    A food made primarily of a mixture of 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.
    • At various times and in different areas salads, compounded of meats, spices, tubers have been treated as of aphrodisiac value.
    • chicken salad
  2. A raw vegetable of the kind used in salads.

    • sandwiches comprising a meat, a cheese, a salad, and a condiment
  3. 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'.
  4. + 1 more definition
    1. Lettuce.

      • I prefer a little salad on my burger.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at salad. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at salad. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at salad

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA