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Definition of salt adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

salt

adjective
 
/sɔːlt/,
 
/sɒlt/
 
/sɔːlt/
[only before noun]
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  1. containing, tasting of or preserved with salt
    • salt water
    • salt beef
    Word OriginOld English sealt (noun), sealtan (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zout and German Salz (nouns), from an Indo-European root shared by Latin sal, Greek hals ‘salt’.
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