salad

Plural

salads

1. 1.A food made primarily of one or more raw or cold ingredients, typically vegetables, usually served with a dressing such as vinegar or mayonnaise.

   • We'd like a couple of cheese salads and two Pepsis, please.
   • At various times and in different areas salads, compounded of meats, spices, tubers have been treated as of aphrodisiac value.

2. 2.Any varied blend or mixture.

   • 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. 3.Lettuce.

   • I prefer a little salad on my burger.

4. 4.One or more raw vegetables of the kind used in salads.

   • Green papaya salad is delicious.

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