Usually means: Exemplary, virtuous, fundamentally good people.
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  1. the salt of the earth: Merriam-Webster
  2. the salt of the earth: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. salt of the earth: Collins English Dictionary
  4. salt of the earth: Wiktionary
  5. salt of the earth: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. salt of the Earth, the salt of the earth: Dictionary.com
  7. Salt of the Earth (Rolling Stones song), Salt of the Earth (song), Salt of the earth (disambiguation), Salt of the earth, The salt of the earth: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. salt of the earth: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. Salt of the earth: World Wide Words

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  1. salt of the earth, the salt of the earth: Idioms

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  1. salt of the earth: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (salt of the earth)

▸ noun:  (idiomatic) A person or group of people considered to represent the most decent and admirable parts of humanity.

Similar:
cream of the crop, best of the bunch, civilization, all-American, everybody who is anybody, worthy, mensch, saint, everyone who's anyone, best, more...

Opposite:
elitist, snobbish, pretentious, haughty, arrogant

Phrases:
the salt of the earth, more...

Adjectives:
salt, salary, subsalt, powdered, salty, salten, saline, salinized, subsaline, mineral, briny

Colors:
    beige,     taupe,     sand,     khaki,     olive, more...

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Similar:
cream of the crop, best of the bunch, civilization, all-American, everybody who is anybody, worthy, mensch, saint, everyone who's anyone, best, more...

Opposite:
elitist, snobbish, pretentious, haughty, arrogant

Phrases:
the salt of the earth, more...

Adjectives:
salt, salary, subsalt, powdered, salty, salten, saline, salinized, subsaline, mineral, briny

Colors:
    beige,     taupe,     sand,     khaki,     olive, more...



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