Sandwich
English
Etymology
The family name is from Old English Sandwiċæ, from sand + wīc (“wick, settlement, harbor, hamlet”).
Proper noun
Sandwich
- A town in Kent, south-east England, one of the historic Cinque Ports.
- An English habitational surname originating from this town.
- One of several younger towns named after the town in Kent or after a person bearing the surname:
- Sandwich, Massachusetts.
- Sandwich, Illinois.
- Sandwich, New Hampshire.
German
Pronunciation
- (Germany) IPA(key): /ˈsɛndvɪt͡ʃ/, /ˈzɛndvɪt͡ʃ/
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Noun
Sandwich n or m (genitive Sandwiches or Sandwichs or Sandwich, plural Sandwiches or Sandwichs or Sandwiche)
- sandwich (snack)
Usage notes
- The German word is commonly used only for more richly filled sandwiches, typically with salad and sauce, normally featuring toast bread or a bread roll. Plainer variants with traditional German bread go by a variant of regional German names like Stulle. Variants with a bread roll often go simply by Brötchen (“bread roll”).
- 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.
Further reading
- Sandwich in Duden online
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