salad dressing

1. 1.

   savory dressings for salads; basically of two kinds: either the thin French or vinaigrette type or the creamy mayonnaise type

   Synonymsdressing

   Broadersauce

   Narrowersauce Louisbleu cheese dressingblue cheese dressingFrench dressingLorenzo dressinganchovy dressingItalian dressinghalf-and-half dressingmayonnaiseRussian dressing

Questions about salad dressing

What does salad dressing mean?

salad dressing means "savory dressings for salads; basically of two kinds: either the thin French or vinaigrette type or the creamy mayonnaise type".

What is another word for salad dressing?

Close synonyms include dressing. 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 salad dressing a common word?

salad dressing is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.