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salad year

salad year

9.9
A year when gardens grow more vegetables and fruits than usual
  • noun
translation icon : año de abundancia
  • Looking back, she remembered 2019 as a salad year, when the crops exceeded all expectations.

Examples

  • This has been a great salad year for our garden.

  • Last summer was a fantastic salad year in California.

  • After a salad year, the family enjoyed making fresh meals every day.

  • This has truly been a salad year for local gardeners.

  • This year has been a wonderful salad year for farmers, yielding a bountiful harvest of tomatoes and cucumbers.

  • Many families celebrated the end of a salad year by sharing delicious recipes using their homegrown vegetables.

  • In 2022, our neighborhood enjoyed a remarkable salad year, with everyone growing a variety of fresh produce.

How Abundant

bumper crop
4 3.4
salad year
9.9

Surface Forms

salad year singular
salad years plural

Morphology

salad + year

The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'salad' (a type of food/produce) combined with 'year' to mean a year characterized by lots of salad or fresh produce. This straightforward noun+noun attributive pattern is common and easily inferred by B1 learners who know both words (though it should be distinguished from the idiom 'salad days').

Etymology

Salad year likely comes from the image of a garden so full of fresh salad greens that people could make salads every day. So, it came to mean 'a year with an abundance of fresh vegetables'.