sandwich

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsæn(d)wɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈsæn(d)wɪt͡ʃ/, /ˈsæmwɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈsæ̃wɪd͡ʒ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsænˌ(d)wɪt͡ʃ/, /ˈsæmˌwɪt͡ʃ/, /ˈsæmˌɪt͡ʃ/, /ˈsæ̃ˌwɪt͡ʃ/

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• Homophone: SDCH

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.

• See Thesaurus:sandwich

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

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.

sandwich (not comparable)

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

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

Borrowed from English sandwich.

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• Hyphenation: sand‧wich

sandwich m (plural sandwiches, diminutive sandwichje n)

1. sandwich

• A sandwich is more commonly called a boterham or a broodje in Dutch.

Borrowed from English sandwich.

• IPA^(key): /sɑ̃.dwiʃ/, /sɑ̃.dwitʃ/

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sandwich m (plural sandwichs)

1. sandwich (food)

• 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.

• sandwicherie
• croissandwich

• “sandwich” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Borrowed from English sandwich.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛndwitʃ/

sandwich m (invariable)

1. sandwich

• sandwicheria f

From English sandwich

sandwich m (definite singular sandwichen, indefinite plural sandwicher, definite plural sandwichene)

1. a sandwich

• “sandwich” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “sandwich” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From English sandwich

sandwich m (definite singular sandwichen, indefinite plural sandwichar, definite plural sandwichane)

1. a sandwich

• “sandwich” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.