- a dish of raw vegetables, such as lettuce, tomatoes, etc, served as a separate course with cold meat, eggs, etc, or as part of a main course
- any dish of cold vegetables or fruit: potato salad, fruit salad
- any green vegetable used in such a dish, esp lettuce
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026
sal•ad /ˈsæləd/USA pronunciation
n.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026- Fooda cold dish of raw vegetables, served with a dressing: [uncountable]We had salad with dinner.[countable]many different salads at the restaurant.
- Fooda dish of raw or cold foods, mixed with mayonnaise or other dressing: [uncountable]potato salad.[countable]delicious pasta salads on the table.
sal•ad
(sal′əd),USA pronunciation n.
- Fooda usually cold dish consisting of vegetables, as lettuce, tomatoes, and cucumbers, covered with a dressing and sometimes containing seafood, meat, or eggs.
- Foodany of various dishes consisting of foods, as meat, seafood, eggs, pasta, or fruit, prepared singly or combined, usually cut up, mixed with a dressing, and served cold:chicken salad; potato salad.
- Foodany herb or green vegetable, as lettuce, used for salads or eaten raw.
- Dialect Terms[South Midland and Southern U.S.]greens.
- any mixture or assortment:The usual salad of writers, artists, and musicians attended the party.
- Vulgar Latin *salāta, feminine past participle of *salāre to salt, equivalent. to sal-, stem of sāl salt1 + -āta -ate1
- Old Provencal salada
- Middle French salade
- Middle English salad(e) 1350–1400
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salad /ˈsæləd/ n
'salad' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
burnet
- Caesar
- Caesar salad
- coleslaw
- corn salad
- dandelion
- doner kebab
- dressing
- French dressing
- fruit salad
- green
- lamb's lettuce
- pottle
- rocket
- Russian salad
- salad days
- salad dressing
- salade niçoise
- salmagundi
- slaw
- sunflower
- Thousand Island dressing
- undressed
- vinaigrette
- Waldorf salad
- accent
- aspic
- baba ghanouj
- bedash
- beet
- boiled dressing
- broil
- chef 's salad
- chicken
- chicory
- cottonseed oil
- cress
- do
- fixing
- garden cress
- help
- hint
- Italian corn salad
- lobster roll
- macédoine
- mache
- making
- mesclun
- olive oil
- peppergrass