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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SAL'AD, n.
Raw herbs, usually dressed with salt, vinegar, oil or spices, and eaten for giving a relish to other food.
Leaves eaten raw, are termed salad.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English salade, from Middle French, from Old Italian (northern dialects) salata, salada, from salar to salt, from sal salt, from Latin Date: 14th century 1. any of various usually cold dishes: as a. raw greens (as lettuce) often combined with other vegetables and toppings and served especially with dressing b. small pieces of food (as pasta, meat, fruit, or vegetables) usually mixed with a dressing (as mayonnaise) or set in gelatin 2. a green vegetable or herb grown for salad; especially lettuce 3. a usually incongruous mixture ; hodgepodge

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a cold dish of various mixtures of raw or cooked vegetables or herbs, usu. seasoned with oil, vinegar, etc. 2 a vegetable or herb suitable for eating raw. Phrases and idioms: salad cream creamy salad-dressing. salad days a period of youthful inexperience. salad-dressing a mixture of oil, vinegar, etc., used with salad. Etymology: ME f. OF salade f. Prov. salada ult. f. L sal salt

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Salad Sal"ad (s[a^]l"ad), n. [F. salade, OIt. salata, It. insalata, fr. salare to salt, fr. L. sal salt. See Salt, and cf. Slaw.] 1. A preparation of vegetables, as lettuce, celery, water cress, onions, etc., usually dressed with salt, vinegar, oil, and spice, and eaten for giving a relish to other food; as, lettuce salad; tomato salad, etc. Leaves eaten raw are termed salad. --I. Watts. 2. A dish composed of chopped meat or fish, esp. chicken or lobster, mixed with lettuce or other vegetables, and seasoned with oil, vinegar, mustard, and other condiments; as, chicken salad; lobster salad.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(salads) 1. A salad is a mixture of raw or cold foods such as lettuce, cucumber, and tomatoes. It is often served with other food as part of a meal. ...a salad of tomato, onion and cucumber. ...potato salad. N-VAR see also fruit salad 2. If you refer to your salad days, you are referring to a period of your life when you were young and inexperienced. (LITERARY) The Grand Hotel did not seem to have changed since her salad days. PHRASE

Moby Thesaurus

Caesar salad, Jell-O salad, Waldorf salad, all sorts, ambrosia, aspic, assemblage, assortment, brew, broad spectrum, chef salad, cole slaw, combination salad, conglomeration, crab Louis, fruit salad, gallimaufry, green salad, hash, herring salad, hodgepodge, hotchpot, hotchpotch, jumble, macaroni salad, magpie, mash, medley, melange, mess, mingle-mangle, miscellany, mishmash, mix, mixed bag, odds and ends, olio, olla podrida, omnium-gatherum, pasticcio, pastiche, patchwork, potato salad, potpourri, salade, salmagundi, sauce, scramble, slaw, stew, tossed salad, what you will