table salt

1. 1.

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

   Synonymssaltcommon salt

   Broaderflavorer

Questions about table salt

What does table salt mean?

table salt means "white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food".

What is another word for table salt?

Close synonyms include salt, common 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 table salt a common word?

table salt 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.