salad
nounEtymology
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.
Definitions
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
A raw vegetable 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'.
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Lettuce.
- I prefer a little salad on my burger.
The neighborhood
- neighbortaramosalata
- neighborangel salad
- neighborBulgarian salad
- neighborCaesar salad
- neighborcandle salad
- neighborcaprese salad
- neighborchef salad
- neighborchicken salad
- neighborChilean salad
- neighborChinese chicken salad
- neighborCobb salad
- neighborcongealed salad
Derived
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 bird, 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 · +15 more
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.
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