salt

1. 1.

   add salt to

   Broaderseason

   cooking

2. 2.

   sprinkle as if with salt

   “the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps”

   Broadersprinkle
3. 3.

   add zest or liveliness to

   “She salts her lectures with jokes”

   Broaderspice
4. 4.

   preserve with salt

   “people used to salt meats on ships”

   Broaderpreserve

   cooking

1. 1.

   (of speech) painful or bitter

   “salt scorn”

   “a salt apology”

   Similarsharp

Other forms of salt

plural

salts·

past tense

salted·

present participle

salting·

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 salt

What does salt mean?

salt means "a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)". That is the primary sense; the word has 9 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in salt?

salt has 1 syllable: salt. In IPA it is /ˈsɔlt/.

What is another word for salt?

Close synonyms include table salt, common salt, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, saltiness, salinity. 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 salt a common word?

salt 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.

What rhymes with salt?

3 words rhyme with salt. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.