Definitions for salad days

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

sal′ad days`(n.)

  1. a period of youthful inexperience.

Origin of salad days:

1600–10

Princeton's WordNet

  1. bloom, bloom of youth, salad days(noun)

    the best time of youth

Wiktionary

  1. salad days(Noun)

    A period of inexperienced youthful innocence accompanied by enthusiasm and idealism.

  2. Origin: Coined by William Shakespeare, in Anthony and Cleopatra, act 1, sc. 5:


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