salad

Meaning

1. A food made primarily of a mixture of raw or cold ingredients, typically vegetables, usually served with a dressing such as vinegar or mayonnaise.
2. A food made primarily of a mixture of raw or cold ingredients, typically vegetables, usually served with a dressing such as vinegar or mayonnaise.
3. A raw vegetable of the kind used in salads.
4. Any varied blend or mixture.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈsæləd/

Etymology

PIE word
*séh₂ls
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.

Sentences

For dinner , they had Cesar salad .