sandwich

English




Etymology
Named after its supposed inventor, the Earl of Sandwich (see Sandwich).

Noun

 * 1) A dish or foodstuff where at least one piece, but typically two or more pieces, of bread serve(s) as the wrapper or container of some other food.
 * 2)  Any combination formed by layering one type of material between two layers of some other material.
 * 3)  A layer cake or sandwich cake.
 * 4)  A sandwichman one who wears a sandwich board.
 * 5) * Pall Mall Gazette, quoted in 2004, Chris Jenks, Urban Culture, page 129:
 * We have, and not so very long ago, seen women employed as 'sandwiches'.
 * 1)  A sandwichman one who wears a sandwich board.
 * 2) * Pall Mall Gazette, quoted in 2004, Chris Jenks, Urban Culture, page 129:
 * We have, and not so very long ago, seen women employed as 'sandwiches'.
 * We have, and not so very long ago, seen women employed as 'sandwiches'.

Usage notes

 * In Ireland and the UK, sandwich often presupposes sliced bread, in which case similar foods made with other types of bread are called "filled roll", "filled bap", etc.

Synonyms

 * See Thesaurus:sandwich

Hyponyms

 * sandwich ; ;  ;  ;,  ;  ;

Descendants

 * Chinese: ,
 * Norman French:
 * Chinese: ,
 * Norman French:
 * Chinese: ,
 * Norman French:
 * Chinese: ,
 * Norman French:
 * Norman French:
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Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian: sanduiç, sandviç
 * American Sign Language: FlatB@FromMouth-PalmDown-FlatB@Palm-PalmUp FlatB@NearMouth-FlatB@Palm, BentB@BackHand-PalmBack-BentB@NearMouth-PalmBack BentB@BackHand-BentB@Mouth, BentB@PalmChesthigh-PalmBackThumbAside-B@FromMouth-PalmBack
 * Antillean Creole: sandouch
 * Arabic: سَانْدَوِيتْش, شَطِيرَة
 * Egyptian Arabic: سندويتش
 * Hijazi Arabic: سندويشة, ساندوتش
 * North Levantine Arabic: سندويشة
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: sándwich, bocáu, bocadillu
 * Azerbaijani: sandviç, dürmək, buterbrod
 * Bashkir: сэндвич
 * Belarusian: сэ́ндвіч, бутэрбро́д, лусцень
 * Bengali:
 * Breton: sandwich
 * Bulgarian: са́ндвич
 * Burmese: ဆန်းဒဝစ်,
 * Catalan:, ,
 * Cherokee: ᎠᏍᏛᎭᏟ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 三文治
 * Hakka: 三明治
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Cornish: baramanyn, maw
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, amagermad
 * Dutch: ,
 * Erzya: ой-кши
 * Esperanto: sandviĉo
 * Estonian:, võiku , sändvitš
 * Faroese: tvíflís
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician: ,
 * Georgian: სენდვიჩი, ბუტერბროდი
 * German: belegtes Brot,, ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἀρτόκρεας,  ἀρτότυρος
 * Haitian Creole: sandwich
 * Hawaiian: kanauika
 * Hebrew:, סֶנדוִיץ׳
 * Hindi: सैंडविच
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: ,
 * Indonesian: roti lapis, sandwich
 * Irish:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kashubian: sztula
 * Kazakh: сэндвич, бутерброд
 * Khmer: នំប៉័ងដាក់សាច់
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Lao: ເຂົ້າຈີ່ຢັດໄສ້
 * Latvian: sendvičs
 * Lithuanian: sumuštinis
 * Lombard:
 * Macedonian: сендвич
 * Malay: roti lapis,
 * Manx: braghtan
 * Maori: hanawiti
 * Marshallese: jāānwūj
 * Mongolian: хачиртай талх, сэндвич
 * Navajo: bááh atsįʼ bił ałchʼįʼ ádaatʼéhígíí, atsįʼ bááh bił ałchʼįʼ átʼéhígíí
 * Norman: sannouiche, beurrée , doraïe
 * Northern Sami: vuodjaláibi, uodjaláibi
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: sandwich,
 * Nynorsk: sandwich, smørbrød
 * Occitan:, entrelesca, sandoich,
 * Persian: ,
 * Piedmontese: sànguis
 * Plautdietsch: Sandwich
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, sandes , sanduba
 * Romanian: ,
 * Romansch: sandwich
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: ceapaire
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: се̏ндвич
 * Roman:
 * Silesian: klapsznita
 * Sinhalese: සැන්ඩ්විච්
 * Slovak: sendvič, obložený chlieb
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, sánduche,  ,  ,  ,  ,  bocata
 * Swedish:, ,  ,
 * Tajik: сандвич
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: སན་ཊ་ཝིཆི
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen:, sandwiç
 * Tuvan: бутерброд
 * Ukrainian: се́ндвіч,
 * Urdu: سینڈوچ
 * Uyghur: ساندۋىچ
 * Uzbek: sandvich,
 * Vietnamese: (also means "bread"), bánh mì kẹp, xăng-uých,
 * Vilamovian: klapśnytła
 * Volapük: sändvig
 * Võro: võidleib, võiuleib
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: brogge
 * Yiddish: שניטקע, סענדוויטש
 * Yoruba: san-wiiṣi


 * Finnish: sandwich-rakenne


 * Finnish: ;


 * Slovak: (1)

Verb

 * 1)  To place (an item) physically between two other, usually flat, items.
 * 2)  To put or set between two other events in time.
 * 3)  To double penetrate.
 * 4)  To feed sandwiches to.
 * 5)  To eat sandwiches.
 * 1)  To put or set between two other events in time.
 * 2)  To double penetrate.
 * 3)  To feed sandwiches to.
 * 4)  To eat sandwiches.
 * 1)  To feed sandwiches to.
 * 2)  To eat sandwiches.
 * 1)  To eat sandwiches.
 * 1)  To eat sandwiches.
 * 1)  To eat sandwiches.
 * 1)  To eat sandwiches.
 * 1)  To eat sandwiches.
 * 1)  To eat sandwiches.
 * 1)  To eat sandwiches.
 * 1)  To eat sandwiches.
 * 1)  To eat sandwiches.
 * 1)  To eat sandwiches.
 * 1)  To eat sandwiches.

Translations

 * Finnish: kerrostaa
 * German: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Maori: karapiti
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Vietnamese: ,

Adjective

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

Usage notes

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

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Etymology
Borrowed from, after the Earl of Sandwich.

Noun

 * 1) sandwich

Usage notes

 * A sandwich is more commonly called a (which may also denote a single slice of bread) or a  (which may also denote a bun or roll) in Dutch.

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) sandwich food

Usage notes

 * 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.

Etymology
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Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) a

Etymology
From, supposedly named for its inventor, the Earl of Sandwich.

Noun

 * 1) a

Noun

 * 1) sandwich