salad

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A food made primarily of a mixture of raw or cold ingredients, typically vegetables, usually served with a dressing such as vinegar or mayonnaise.

   “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.”

   “At various times and in different areas salads, compounded of meats, spices, tubers have been treated as of aphrodisiac value.”

   “chicken salad”

   “We'd like a couple of cheese salads and two Pepsis, please.”

2. (countable, uncountable)A food made primarily of a mixture of raw or cold ingredients, typically vegetables, usually served with a dressing such as vinegar or mayonnaise.

   “romaine salad”

   “kale salad”

3. (countable, uncountable)A raw vegetable of the kind used in salads.

   “sandwiches comprising a meat, a cheese, a salad, and a condiment”

4. (countable, idiomatic, uncountable)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'.”

5. (UK, countable, uncountable)Lettuce.

   “I prefer a little salad on my burger.”