salad

noun

1. 1

   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.

   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.

   At various times and in different areas salads, compounded of meats, spices, tubers have been treated as of aphrodisiac value.

   We'd like a couple of cheese salads and two Pepsis, please.

2. 2

   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

   I prefer a bit of salad on my burger.

   Buy a bag of salad at the supermarket.

3. 3

   Any mixture of different things.

   word salad

   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'.

Forms

plural

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