sandwich

Meaning

Noun

1. A dish or foodstuff where at least one piece, but typically two or more pieces, of bread serves as the wrapper or container of some other food.
2. (broadly) Any combination formed by layering one type of material between two layers of some other material.
3. (UK) A layer cake or sandwich cake.
4. (archaic) A sandwichman (one who wears a sandwich board).

Verb

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

Adj

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

Synonyms

bread and butter

press on two sides

hamburger

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intercalation

interlayer

interleaf

interleave

lamellar

lamination

layered

mezzanine

open sandwich

pack

press

sandwiching

slice

slice of bread

squeeze

stratiform

streak

submarine

toast

open-face sandwich

sandwich-man

squeeze in

wich

interlay

compress on two opposite sides

make pincer movement

sandwich construction

laminated structure

sarnie

layer structure

brace

structural sandwich

crowd

dodger

Translations

sandwich

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Sandwich

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sandwich

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emparedado

🥪

bocadillo

boterham

sándwich

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sandviç

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Butterbrot

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈsæn(d)wɪd͡ʒ/

Etymology

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