Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A mixture of finely cut vegetables or fruits, sometimes jellied, and served as a salad, a dessert, or an appetizer.
  • noun A mixture; a medley.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A mold of jolly containing a mixture of fruits; also, a mixture of vegetables served as a garnish to meat or, with a sauce, as a vegetable dish or as a salad.
  • noun Hence, figuratively, any mixture of unrelated things.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (fig.), (fig.) A kind of mixed dish, as of cooked vegetables with white sauce, sweet jelly with whole fruit, mixed diced fruits or vegetables etc.; served hot or cold

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A type of dish containing a mixture of many types of fruits, or many types of vegetables.
  • noun A confused mixture; medley.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun mixed diced fruits or vegetables; hot or cold

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French, from Macédoine, Macedonia (perhaps from the mixture of different ethnic groups there).]

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