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noun
A food made primarily of one or more raw or cold ingredients, typically vegetables, usually served with a dressing such as vinegar or mayonnaise.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A food made primarily of one or more 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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
One or more raw vegetables of the kind used in salads.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Any varied blend or mixture.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, idiomatic, uncountable
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noun
Lettuce.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, countable, uncountable
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noun
food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing; usually consisting of or including greens
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: dish
Narrower terms: tossed salad, salmagundi, salad nicoise, potato salad, pasta salad, fruit salad, crab Louis, herring salad, tuna fish salad, tuna salad, chicken salad, coleslaw, slaw, molded salad, tabbouleh, tabooli
History
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.
Across languages
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