sandwich

UK/ˈsæn(d).wɪd͡ʒ/US/ˈsænˌ(d)wɪt͡ʃ/

nounA12 meanings Very common — you will meet it every day · #1,422 of 15,258leans spoken

Other forms: sandwiches, sandwiched, sandwiching

A sandwich is two slices of bread with something good in between. Cheese, ham, egg and cress, cut across the middle.

It is named after an eighteenth-century Earl of Sandwich, who is said to have asked for meat between bread so that he need not leave the card table. The word became a verb meaning to squeeze something between two others, as in sandwiched between two lorries. Britain has built a whole industry on it, from the packaged triangle to the sandwich shop. A sandwich course is a degree with a year of work in the middle, on exactly the same logic.

Definitions of sandwich

1nounsandwichTwo slices of bread with a filling between them.A1~98%
“He made a cheese sandwich and ate it standing up.”
2verbsqueezeTo squeeze something tightly between two other things.B2~2%
“The café is sandwiched between a bank and a chemist.”

Shares are an estimate: a language model read 21 sentences found in the wild and placed 21 of them on a sense — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.

Where it comes from

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Food & Drink, A Man Called Ove

First appears in chapter 17 of A Man Called Ove.

Practise this word

sandwich in the wild

Under some definitions, a hamburger is considered a sandwich.
Hamburger
The USDA uses the definition, "at least 35% cooked meat and no more than 50% bread" for closed sandwiches, and "at least 50% cooked meat" for open sandwiches.
Sandwich
The sandwich is named after the inventor of a certain roast-beef sandwich in 18th-century England, John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich.
Sandwich
Sandwich also gave its name to the food by way of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, and the word sandwich is now found in several languages.
Sandwich, Kent
A BLT is a type of sandwich, named for the initials of its primary ingredients, bacon, lettuce, and tomato.
BLT

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Definitions of sandwich

1nounsandwichTwo slices of bread with a filling between them.A1~98%

“He made a cheese sandwich and ate it standing up.”

2verbsqueezeTo squeeze something tightly between two other things.B2~2%

“The café is sandwiched between a bank and a chemist.”

Shares are an estimate: a language model read 21 sentences found in the wild and placed 21 of them on a sense — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.