salt
/sˈɔlt/ · 1 syllable
Meaning
noun
- a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)
- white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food
- negotiations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics opened in 1969 in Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons
- the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth
adjective
- (of speech) painful or bitter- Shakespeare
“salt scorn”
verb
- add salt to
- sprinkle as if with salt
“the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps” - add zest or liveliness to
“She salts her lectures with jokes” - preserve with salt
“people used to salt meats on ships”
Synonyms for salt
Words that rhyme with salt
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