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salad - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Noun

salad (countable and uncountable, plural salads)

• 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.¹
  • ✤ At various times and in different areas salads, compounded of meats, spices, tubers have been treated as of aphrodisiac value.²
  • ✤ We’d like a couple of cheese salads and two Pepsis, please.
• 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.
• (idiomatic) Any mixture of different things.
  • ✤ *word salad * - incoherent speech
  • ✤ 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’.³

Etymology

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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.

Pronunciation

• enPR: săʹləd IPA: /ˈsæl.əd/
• Audio (US): 🔊
• (Southern US) IPA: /ˈsæl.ɪd/
• (South Asia) IPA: /ˈsaləɖ/, /səˈlɑɖ/, /səˈlɑd̪/
• (obsolete) IPA: /ˈsæl.ɪt/⁴⁵
• Rhymes: -æləd

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Footnotes

1. c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]: ↩

2. 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 213: ↩

3. 2021 October 16, Gurvinder Singh, “Why Pakistan will fail”, in Guruwonder ‎${}^{[2]}$: ↩

4. Grandgent, C[harles] H. (1899), “V. From Franklin to Lowell. A Century of New England Pronunciation”, in James Bright, editor, Publications of the Modern Language Association of America ‎${}^{[1]}$, volume 14, number 2, Baltimore: Modern Language Association of America, →DOI, →OCLC, page 238. ↩

5. Hall, Joseph Sargent (2 March 1942), “3. The Consonants”, in The Phonetics of Great Smoky Mountain Speech (American Speech: Reprints and Monographs; 4), New York: King’s Crown Press, →DOI, →ISBN, § 6, page 98. ↩

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