salad
A food consisting principally of raw vegetables (especially greens, e.g. lettuce), other savoury ingredients (typically cooked), fruit, or confectionary; often involving two or more such ingredients mixed together, with larger items cut or torn into small pieces, and usually with a dressing or binding; usually served cold or at room temperature, as a dish or savoury sandwich filling.
Noun 3 meanings
A food consisting principally of raw vegetables (especially greens, e.g. lettuce), other savoury ingredients (typically cooked), fruit, or confectionary; often involving two or more such ingredients mixed together, with larger items cut or torn into small pieces, and usually with a dressing or binding; usually served cold or at room temperature, as a dish or savoury sandwich filling.
“We'd like a couple of cheese salads and two Pepsis, please.”
One or more raw vegetables of the kind used in salads; typically greens (especially lettuce).
“sandwiches comprising a meat, a cheese, a salad, and a condiment”
Any mixture of different things.
Etymology
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.
SALAD at a glance
SALAD has 5 letters and scores 6 points in Scrabble (S 1 + A 1 + L 1 + A 1 + D 2) and 7 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #5,528 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with salad
All rhymes- GLAD6
- CLAD7
- BALLAD9
- IRONCLAD11
- BLAD7
- UNCLAD9
- SKYCLAD17
- CEPHALAD16
- SALLAD7
- UNGLAD8
- BEGLAD10
- OVERCLAD14
One letter away
- SALAT5
- SALAL5
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