Salad Meaning
/ˈsæl.əd/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA food made primarily of a mixture of raw or cold ingredients, typically vegetables, usually served with a dressing such as vinegar or mayonnaise.
nounA food made primarily of one or more raw or cold ingredients, typically vegetables, usually served with a dressing such as vinegar or mayonnaise.
Sentence Examples
I like cold potato salad in the summertime.
Would you like some more salad?
All main courses come with salad or vegetables.
CEFR Practice Quiz
For lunch, she ate a fresh green ____ with tomatoes and lettuce.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She prepared a fresh ____ with tomatoes, cucumber, and feta cheese for lunch.
Word Origin & History
PIE word *sḗh₂l 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.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 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]:
"At various times and in different areas salads, compounded of meats, spices, tubers have been treated as of aphrodisiac value."
— 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 213:
"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'."
— 2021 October 16, Gurvinder Singh, “Why Pakistan will fail”, in Guruwonder:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
For lunch, she ate a fresh green ____ with tomatoes and lettuce.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She prepared a fresh ____ with tomatoes, cucumber, and feta cheese for lunch.