salad /ˈsæl.əd/noun 3forms 1phrases 2 noun3 •food made of uncooked vegetables such as lettuce, or of other foods such as fruit, cheese or cooked meat, often several of them cut up and mixed together, and usually served coldWe'd like a couple of cheese salads and two Pepsis, please. •One or more raw vegetables of the kind used in salads; typically greens (especially lettuce).I prefer a bit of salad on my burger.Buy a bag of salad at the supermarket. •Any mixture of different things.Rebuffed by the Arabs and then the Iranians for trying to be part of them and their societies, Pakistan is just a hotchpotch salad of people supposedly bound together by the myth of Muslim 'Ummah'. — 2021 formssalads Phrases with salad salad daysA period of inexperienced youthful innocence accompanied by enthusiasm and idealism. salad yearThe inexperienced, youthful prime of a person, group, organization, or entity.