- warm potato salads are better than cold ones.
- few things are better than a blue cheese wedge salad.
- few things are better than a blue cheese wedge salad.
- A wedge salad is right on the edge. It's a traditional salad except that the lettuce leaves are not separated. But if it was anything else in that form factor, like replacing the lettuce wedge with a potato, that's not a salad.
I'm absolutely horrified by the way kids use "literally", but that definition has achieved critical mass and must be included in the dictionary.
The insistence on a single definition is where the silliness of the original article comes into play. There are obviously multiple definitions of salad; you don't have to accept all of them.
If one attempts to have a single definition stretched over all the meanings, then you indeed get a definition that is way too broad that includes soups and sandwiches, which is ludicrous. But it's quite common for a single word to have multiple senses, let's just go with that.