<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>A usually cold dish consisting of vegetables, as lettuce, tomatoes, and cucumbers, covered with a dressing and sometimes containing seafood, meat, or eggs.</li><li>Any of various dishes consisting of foods, as meat, seafood, eggs, pasta, or fruit, prepared singly or combined, usually cut up, mixed with a dressing, and served cold: chicken salad; potato salad.</li><li>Any herb or green vegetable, as lettuce, used for salads or eaten raw.</li><li>Informal: A person who is so severely impaired mentally or physically as to be largely incapable of conscious responses or activity.</li><li>A dull, spiritless, and uninteresting person.</li><li>Any mixture or assortment: The usual salad of writers, artists, and musicians attended the party.</li></ul>