SALAD
What does "SALAD" mean?
A dish of raw or cold mixed vegetables, often dressed with oil, vinegar, or sauce.
Meanings
- A cold dish of mixed vegetables, greens, or other ingredients, usually with a dressing. He tossed the salad with a splash of lemon and olive oil.
- A confused, jumbled mixture (as in 'word salad'). His answer was pure word salad-impressive sounding and meaning nothing. figurative
Did you know?
- 'Salad' traces back to the Latin word for salt, 'sal': the dish is named not for its greens but for the salting they were given-so 'salad' literally means 'the salted thing'.
Word origin
From Old French 'salade', from Vulgar Latin 'salata' meaning 'salted (herbs)', from Latin 'sal' ('salt')-because greens were originally seasoned with salt.
Remember it
SALAD starts with SAL-the Latin for salt, the very thing that named it.
A little poem
Garden in a bowl-
torn green, a glint of oil,
summer kept uncooked.
haiku
Wordplay
- Why did the lettuce blush? It saw the salad dressing.
What it teaches
The humblest dishes carry the oldest words; a salad is just salt's first invitation to the table.
Quick facts
What does SALAD mean?
A dish of raw or cold mixed vegetables, often dressed with oil, vinegar, or sauce.
Is SALAD a valid word?
Yes — SALAD is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is SALAD?
SALAD has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does SALAD come from?
From Old French 'salade', from Vulgar Latin 'salata' meaning 'salted (herbs)', from Latin 'sal' ('salt')-because greens were originally seasoned with salt.
What can SALAD teach us?
The humblest dishes carry the oldest words; a salad is just salt's first invitation to the table.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.