common salt

1. 1.

   a white crystalline solid consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl)

   Synonymssodium chloride

   Broaderbinary compound

   Narrowerhalite
2. 2.

   white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food

   Synonymssalttable salt

   Broaderflavorer

Questions about common salt

What does common salt mean?

common salt means "a white crystalline solid consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for common salt?

Close synonyms include sodium chloride, salt, table salt. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is common salt a common word?

common salt is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.