A food made primarily of a mixture of raw ingredients, typically vegetables, usually served with a dressing such as vinegar or mayonnaise
If you refer to your salad days, you are referring to a period of your life when you were young and inexperienced. The Grand Hotel did not seem to have changed since her salad days
A salad is a mixture of raw or cold foods such as lettuce, cucumber, and tomatoes. It is often served with other food as part of a meal. a salad of tomato, onion and cucumber. potato salad. see also fruit salad
chicken or lobster, mixed with lettuce or other vegetables, and seasoned with oil, vinegar, mustard, and other condiments; as, chicken salad; lobster salad
usually dressed with salt, vinegar, oil, and spice, and eaten for giving a relish to other food; as, lettuce salad; tomato salad, etc
{i} dish made from several foods mixed together (esp. vegetables); herbs and vegetables used in a salad; greens, edible leaves of green vegetables (in the southern USA)