Definition of "salad"

salad

/ˈsæləd/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural salads
1. A food made primarily of a mixture of raw or cold ingredients, typically vegetables, usually served with a dressing such as vinegar or mayonnaise.
  Quotations
  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.
  c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene v]
  1. Especially, such a mixture whose principal base is greens, most especially lettuce.
2. A raw vegetable of the kind used in salads.
3. (idiomatic) Any varied blend or mixture.
  Quotations
  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'.
  2021 October 16, Gurvinder Singh, “Why Pakistan will fail”, in Guruwonder‎