salad |ˈsaləd| *ensalada (in Spanish)
DEFINITIONnoun
a cold dish of various mixtures of raw or cooked vegetables, usually seasoned with oil, vinegar, or other dressing and sometimes accompanied by meat, fish, or other ingredients: a green salad | [mass noun ] : bowls of salad.• [ mass noun ] [ with modifier ] a mixture containing a specified ingredient served with adressing: a red pepper filled with tuna salad.• a vegetable suitable for eating raw.
PHRASES
One's salad days the period when one is young and inexperienced. • the peak or heyday of something.[from Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra i. v. 73.]
ORIGINLate Middle English: from Old French salade, from Provençal salada, based on Latin sal ‘salt’.
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