salad
Americannoun
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a usually cold dish consisting of vegetables, as lettuce, tomatoes, and cucumbers, covered with a dressing and sometimes containing seafood, meat, or eggs.
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any 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.
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any herb or green vegetable, as lettuce, used for salads or eaten raw.
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South Midland and Southern U.S. greens.
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any mixture or assortment.
The usual salad of writers, artists, and musicians attended the party.
noun
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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
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any dish of cold vegetables or fruit
potato salad
fruit salad
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any green vegetable used in such a dish, esp lettuce
Etymology
Origin of salad
1350–1400; Middle English salad ( e ) < Middle French salade < Old Provençal salada < Vulgar Latin *salāta, feminine past participle of *salāre to salt, equivalent to sal-, stem of sāl salt 1 + -āta -ate 1
Example Sentences
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The fast-casual salad chain, in a statement, said the results came up short of even its own expectations.
From MarketWatch
The salad restaurant chain on Thursday posted a loss of $49.7 million, or 42 cents a share, compared with a loss of $29.0 million, or 25 cents a share, a year earlier.
The chain, known for its salads and bowls, is rolling out wraps in select markets across the country.
From Barron's
Acai bowls were recalled over possible plastic contamination, while sesame miso salad and hot honey mustard dressing were recalled over undeclared allergens.
From Los Angeles Times
Cava Group issued an upbeat sales forecast for this year, as cautious customers shook off the effects of snowstorms and last year’s government shutdown to return to the Mediterranean fast-casual chain for bowls and salads.
From MarketWatch
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