salad

1. 1.

   food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing; usually consisting of or including greens

   Broaderdish

   Narrowertossed saladsalmagundisalad nicoisepotato saladpasta saladfruit saladcrab Louisherring saladtuna fish saladchicken salad

Other forms of salad

plural

salads·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about salad

What does salad mean?

salad means "food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing; usually consisting of or including greens".

How many syllables are in salad?

salad has 2 syllables: sal-ad. The stress falls on "sal". In IPA it is /ˈsæləd/.

Is salad a common word?

salad is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.