Meanings
plural table salts
- uncountableusuallySodium chloride or a mineral product chiefly composed of it: the salt most commonly used to season food at table.
Near-synonyms: common salt, salt (broad sense), NaCl, kosher salt
Synonyms: common salt, salt[Appendix:Glossary, mul:NaCl, kosher salt
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSodium chloride or a mineral product chiefly composed of it: the salt most commonly used to season food at table.
More synonyms by meaning
nounwhite crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Bulgarian готва́рска сол
- готва́рска сол (gotvárska sol)salt to season food
Chinese Cantonese 餐桌鹽 /餐桌盐
- 餐桌鹽 /餐桌盐 (caan¹ zoek³ jim⁴)salt to season food
Chinese Mandarin 食鹽 /食盐, 精鹽 /精盐
- 食鹽 /食盐 (shíyán)salt to season food
- 精鹽 /精盐 (jīngyán)salt to season food
Danish bordsalt
- bordsaltsalt to season food
Dutch tafelzout, keukenzout
- tafelzoutsalt to season food
- keukenzoutsalt to season food
Esperanto tabla salo
- tabla salosalt to season food
Estonian keedusool, lauasool
- keedusoolsalt to season food
- lauasoolsalt to season food
Finnish ruokasuola, pöytäsuola
- ruokasuolasalt to season food
- pöytäsuolasalt to season food
- keittosuolasalt to season food
French sel de table, sel
- sel de tablesalt to season food
- selsalt to season food
German Kochsalz, Tafelsalz
- Kochsalzsalt to season food
- Tafelsalzsalt to season food
- Speisesalzsalt to season food
Hungarian konyhasó
- konyhasósalt to season food
Indonesian garam dapur
- garam dapursalt to season food
Irish salann mín
- salann mínsalt to season food
Japanese 食塩
- 食塩 (shokuen)salt to season food
Korean 소금
- 소금 (sogeum)salt to season food
Norwegian Bokmål bordsalt
- bordsaltsalt to season food
Norwegian Nynorsk bordsalt
- bordsaltsalt to season food
Polish sól kuchenna
- sól kuchennasalt to season food
Portuguese sal de cozinha, sal comum
- sal de cozinhasalt to season food
- sal comumsalt to season food
Punjabi ਲੂਣ, ਨੂਣ
- ਲੂਣ (lūṇ)salt to season food
- ਨੂਣ (nūṇ)salt to season food
- ਨਮਕ (namak)salt to season food
- لُوݨ (lūṇ)salt to season food
- نُوݨ (nūṇ)salt to season food
- نَمَک (namak)salt to season food
Russian столова́я соль, пова́ренная соль
- столова́я соль (stolovája solʹ)salt to season food
- пова́ренная соль (povárennaja solʹ)salt to season food
Slovak kuchynská soľ, jedlá soľ
- kuchynská soľsalt to season food
- jedlá soľsalt to season food
Spanish sal de cocina, sal común
- sal de cocinasalt to season food
- sal comúnsalt to season food
- sal de mesasalt to season food
Swedish bordsalt, bordssalt
- bordsaltsalt to season food
- bordssaltsalt to season food
- koksaltsalt to season food
Thai เกลือแกง
- เกลือแกง (glʉʉa-gɛɛng)salt to season food
Ukrainian столова́ сіль
- столова́ сіль (stolová silʹ)salt to season food
Urdu نَمَک, لون
- نَمَک (namak)salt to season food
- لون (lon)salt to season food
- لُون (lūn)salt to season food
- نون (non)salt to season food
- مِلْح (milh)salt to season food
Vietnamese muối ăn
- muối ănsalt to season food
Cite this entry
table salt. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/table%20salt
“table salt.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/table%20salt. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “table salt,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/table%20salt.
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