SALAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does salad mean? 

• SALAD (noun)
  The noun SALAD has 1 sense:

1. food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing; usually consisting of or including greens

  Familiarity information: SALAD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SALAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing; usually consisting of or including greens

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("salad" is a kind of...):

dish (a particular item of prepared food)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "salad"):

tossed salad (salad tossed with a dressing)

salmagundi (cooked meats and eggs and vegetables usually arranged in rows around the plate and dressed with a salad dressing)

salad nicoise (typically containing tomatoes and anchovies and garnished with black olives and capers)

potato salad (any of various salads having chopped potatoes as the base)

pasta salad (a salad having any of various pastas as the base)

fruit salad (salad composed of fruits)

crab Louis (lettuce and crabmeat dressed with sauce Louis)

herring salad (based on pickled herring)

tuna fish salad; tuna salad (salad composed primarily of chopped canned tuna fish)

chicken salad (salad composed primarily of chopped chicken meat)

coleslaw; slaw (basically shredded cabbage)

molded salad (salad of meats or vegetables in gelatin)

tabbouleh; tabooli (a finely chopped salad with tomatoes and parsley and mint and scallions and bulgur wheat)

 Context examples 

At last he thought to himself, “I can eat salad, it will refresh and strengthen me.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

It can be used as baby or ''teen'' leaf in salad bags, as bunched products, and in spring mixes for fresh-market consumption.

(World's First True Red Spinach Variety Released, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

This, with some cheese and a salad and a bottle of old Tokay, of which I had two glasses, was my supper.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

"I can't get any lobsters, so you will have to do without salad today," said Mr. March, coming in half an hour later, with an expression of placid despair.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

We need to carry on cooking chicken well and never to alternately handle raw meat and salad.

(Wash your hands or else spread superbug E. coli, say scientists, Wikinews)

These two girls had been above an hour in the place, happily employed in visiting an opposite milliner, watching the sentinel on guard, and dressing a salad and cucumber.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Red Whisker pretended he could make a salad (which I don't believe), and obtruded himself on public notice.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It is true, I sometimes made a shift to catch a rabbit, or bird, by springs made of Yahoo’s hairs; and I often gathered wholesome herbs, which I boiled, and ate as salads with my bread; and now and then, for a rarity, I made a little butter, and drank the whey.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

It is as well just to have a tag or two of Horace or Virgil: ‘sub tegmine fagi,’ or ‘habet fœnum in cornu,’ which gives a flavour to one’s conversation like the touch of garlic in a salad.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As the cab drew up before the address indicated, the fog lifted a little and showed him a dingy street, a gin palace, a low French eating house, a shop for the retail of penny numbers and twopenny salads, many ragged children huddled in the doorways, and many women of many different nationalities passing out, key in hand, to have a morning glass; and the next moment the fog settled down again upon that part, as brown as umber, and cut him off from his blackguardly surroundings.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)