salad

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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.

2. 2
   noun

   A raw vegetable of the kind used in salads.

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

3. 3
   noun

   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. 4
   noun

   Lettuce.

   I prefer a little salad on my burger.

5. 5
   noun

   food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing

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.