salvage

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun property or goods saved from damage or destruction
  2. noun the act of saving goods or property that were in danger of damage or destruction
  3. noun the act of rescuing a ship or its crew or its cargo from a shipwreck or a fire

Etymology

From Old French salver (see also save, from a variant form), from Late Latin salvare (“to make safe, secure, save”), from Latin salvus (“safe”) with the English suffix -age.

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