A salad is a mixture of raw or cold foods such as lettuce, cucumber, and tomatoes. It is often served with other food as part of a meal.
...a salad of tomato, onion and cucumber. [+ of]
...potato salad.
2. See also fruit salad
3.
See one's salad days
salad in British English
(ˈsæləd)
noun
1.
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
2.
any dish of cold vegetables or fruit
potato salad
fruit salad
3.
any green vegetable used in such a dish, esp lettuce
Word origin
C15: from Old French salade, from Old Provençal salada, from salar to season with salt, from Latin sal salt
salad in American English
(ˈsæləd)
noun
1.
a dish, usually cold, of raw or sometimes cooked vegetables or fruits in various combinations, served with a dressing, or molded in gelatin, and sometimes with seafood, poultry, eggs, etc. added
2.
a.
any green plant or herb used for such a dish or eaten raw
b. Dialectal
lettuce
3. US
a finely chopped or ground food mixed with mayonnaise, seasonings, etc. and served as on lettuce or in a sandwich
tuna salad, egg salad sandwich
Word origin
ME salat < MFr salade < Prov salada < VL *salata < fem. pp. of *salare, to salt < L sal, salt
Baked potato with reduced sugar and salt baked beans with a tomato and basil salad.
The Sun (2010)
Transfer to a bowl and eat along with the tomato and onion salad.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
These small potatoes are bursting with flavour and are much more versatile than other salad potatoes.
The Sun (2016)
Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Try them sautéed in butter with garlic or sliced in a salad with cucumber and fennel.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
You may want to add rice or a green salad.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Serve with a tomato and spring onion salad drizzled with balsamic glaze and seasoned with herb salt.
The Sun (2011)
There are two important points about making potato salad.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
It is desirable to have one raw salad meal per day throughout the year.
Turner, Roger Newman The Hayfever Handbook - a summer survival guide (1988)
This is such a pretty fruit salad and so fresh and interesting to eat.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Serve with lemon wedges and a cucumber and tomato salad on the side.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Spoon salad into serving dish and sprinkle with chopped parsley.
Elliot, Rose Cooking with Beans and Pulses
This is delicious with chips and a crisp green salad.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Opened wine, ready meals and salad dressing could also last longer.
The Sun (2011)
Serve with the dressed green salad, the tomato slices and the roll.
The Sun (2013)
I'd snack on fruit, lunch was leftovers from the healthy nightly meal or a salad.
The Sun (2014)
In other languages
salad
British English: salad /ˈsæləd/ NOUN
A salad is a mixture of uncooked vegetables, eaten as part of a meal.
...a salad of tomato, onion, and cucumber.
American English: salad
Arabic: سَلاَطَة
Brazilian Portuguese: salada
Chinese: 色拉
Croatian: salata
Czech: salát
Danish: salat
Dutch: salade
European Spanish: ensalada
Finnish: salaatti ruokalaji
French: salade
German: Salat
Greek: σαλάτα
Italian: insalata
Japanese: サラダ
Korean: 샐러드
Norwegian: salat
Polish: sałatka
European Portuguese: salada
Romanian: salată
Russian: салат
Latin American Spanish: ensalada
Swedish: sallad
Thai: สลัด
Turkish: salata
Ukrainian: салат
Vietnamese: xa-lát
All related terms of 'salad'
salad bar
a counter in a restaurant or other place where food is sold at which a range of salads is displayed, often for self-service
salad oil
a non-specific way of referring (for example , in recipes , etc) to any edible vegetable oil that might be used in a salad dressing , for example, sunflower oil, peanut oil, olive oil etc
Cobb salad
a salad consisting mainly of chopped lettuce , chicken , cheddar , egg, bacon , avocado , vinaigrette , and blue cheese
corn salad
any valerianaceous plant of the genus Valerianella, esp the European species V . locusta , which often grows in cornfields and whose leaves are sometimes used in salads
fruit salad
Fruit salad is a mixture of pieces of different kinds of fruit. It is usually eaten as a dessert .
green salad
A green salad is a salad made mainly with lettuce and other green vegetables.
mixed salad
a salad consisting of mixed salad vegetables , such as lettuce , tomato , cucumber , etc
salad bowl
A salad bowl is a large bowl from which salad is served at a meal .
salad cream
Salad cream is a pale-yellow creamy sauce that you eat with salad.
salad days
a period of youth and inexperience
salad dish
a large bowl in which salad is mixed and served
salad green
a leafy green vegetable, as lettuce , watercress , or escarole, served raw as or in a salad
salad plate
a small plate used chiefly for serving an individual portion of salad
side salad
A side salad is a bowl of salad for one person which is served with a main meal .
word salad
an incoherent jumble of words and non-verbal sounds, often a symptom of mental illness
Caesar salad
Caesar salad is a type of salad containing lettuce, eggs , cheese, and small pieces of fried bread , served with a dressing of oil, vinegar , and herbs .
chef's salad
a salad typically consisting of thin strips of chicken , ham , and Swiss cheese on a bed of lettuce , sometimes with slices or quarters of hard-boiled eggs and tomatoes ; usually served as a main course
niçoise salad
→ salade niçoise
potato salad
a salad made with chopped boiled potatoes and various other ingredients in a dressing (usually mayonnaise )
Russian salad
a salad of cold diced cooked vegetables mixed with Russian dressing
salad burnet
a plant of the rosaceous genus Sanguisorba (or Poterium ), such as S. minor (or P . sanguisorba ) ( salad burnet ), which has purple-tinged green flowers and leaves that are sometimes used for salads
salad servers
kitchen utensils used as tongs to serve salad
salad shaker
a portable plastic container which is used for storing salad and which has a separate compartment for salad dressing . The dressing is put on the salad just before it is eaten and the container can then be shaken to spread the salad dressing evenly.
salad spinner
a utensil used for drying washed salad or vegetables that consists of a plastic basket inside a plastic bowl . The salad is placed in the basket and the outer bowl is then spun using a device such as a gear-operated handle or pull cord , and this spinning then separates water from the salad.
Waldorf salad
a salad of diced apples , celery , and walnuts mixed with mayonnaise
salad dressing
Salad dressing is a mixture of oil, vinegar, herbs , and other flavourings , which you pour over a salad.
vegetable salad
any salad consisting of vegetables, such as cabbage , carrots , beans , etc, not usually included in a green salad
salad ingredients
Ingredients are the things that are used to make something, especially all the different foods you use when you are cooking a particular dish.
one's salad days
If you refer to your salad days , you are referring to a period of your life when you were young and inexperienced.
someone's salad days
the time when someone was young and inexperienced
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