English

Proper noun

Sandwich

1. a town in Kent, south-east England, one of the historic Cinque Ports
2. an English habitational surname originating from this town
3. one of several younger towns named after the town in Kent or after a person bearing the surname:
   • Sandwich, Massachusetts, pop. 20,136 (2000)
   • Sandwich, Illinois, pop. 6,509 (2000)
   • Sandwich, New Hampshire, pop. 1,286 (2000)

Derived terms

• sandwich
• Sandwich Islands

German

Sandwich

Etymology

Borrowing from English sandwich.

Pronunciation

• (Germany) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛndvɪt͡ʃ/, /ˈzɛndvɪt͡ʃ/

Noun

Sandwich n, m ‎(genitive Sandwiches or Sandwichs or Sandwich, plural Sandwiches or Sandwichs or Sandwiche)

1. sandwich (snack)

Usage notes

• The German word is commonly used only for more richly filled sandwiches, typically with salad and sauce.
• The noun is generally neuter, but may be treated as masculine by some speakers.
• The inflected forms above are loosely ordered by frequency. The plural is usually Sandwiches in formal writing, but the two alternative plurals are equally frequent in common usage.

English

An Italian sandwich.

a composite material sandwich with a honeycomb core

Noun

sandwich ‎(plural sandwiches or sandwichs)

1. A dish or foodstuff where two or more slices of bread serve as the wrapper or container of some other food.
   • 2002, Serena Carrington, Avalon, Writers Club Press, p.92:

     He laid out a linen tablecloth and a few sandwichs from some bread, dressing, and beef.

   • 2012, Allie McNeil, Watergate Summer, AuthorHouse, p.160:

     And the only "care" I could offer was egg sandwichs and Lilly's unfaltering attention.

2. (by extension) Any combination formed by layering one type of material between two layers of some other material.
3. (Britain) A layer cake or sandwich cake.
   • 2016, Alysa Levene, Cake: A Slice of History

     […] our local agricultural fair in Warwickshire even has a category for Victoria sandwiches baked by male bakers.

Synonyms

• See Wikisaurus:sandwich

Hyponyms

• (closed, ground beef, on a bun): hamburger, burger
• (closed, other meats, on a bun; informal): -burger
• (closed, ground beef, on bread): patty melt

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Verb

sandwich ‎(third-person singular simple present sandwiches, present participle sandwiching, simple past and past participle sandwiched)

1. To place one item between two other, usually flat, items
2. (figuratively) To put or set something between two others, in time.
   • 2011 April 11, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City”, in BBC Sport:

     Dirk Kuyt sandwiched a goal in between Carroll's double as City endured a night of total misery, with captain Carlos Tevez limping off early on with a hamstring strain that puts a serious question mark over his participation in Saturday's FA Cup semi-final against Manchester United at Wembley.

Translations

Adjective

sandwich ‎(not comparable)

1. (US) Of a meal or serving size that is smaller than a dinner.

Usage notes

• The adjective sense is used primarily by restaurants specializing in barbeque, and does not imply that the meal includes an actual sandwich.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sand‧wich

Etymology

Borrowing from English sandwich.

Noun

sandwich m ‎(plural sandwiches, diminutive sandwichje n)

1. sandwich

Usage notes

• Usually a sandwich is just called a boterham or a broodje in Dutch.

French

Etymology

Borrowing from English sandwich

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɑ̃.dwitʃ/

Noun

sandwich m ‎(plural sandwichs)

1. sandwich (snack)

Usage notes

• Note that French does not follow the English rule of adding es to nouns ending in the sound /tʃ/. Since the final /s/ is not pronounced in the plural, there is no difficulty in pronouncing the plural formed by adding s rather than es.

Derived terms

• sandwicherie

Italian

Etymology

Borrowing from English sandwich

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛndwitʃ/

Noun

sandwich m ‎(invariable)

1. sandwich

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsanɡwit͡ʃ/, [ˈsãŋɡwit͡ʃ]

Noun

sandwich m ‎(plural sandwichs)

1. sandwich