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sandal

/ˈsændəl/

sandal noun: a type of open shoe made up of straps or bands holding a sole to the foot.

sandal: a type of open shoe made up of straps or bands holding a sole to the foot
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Noun (1)

sandal (plural sandals)

  1. (footwear) A type of open shoe made up of straps or bands holding a sole to the foot

Verb

sandal (third-person singular simple present sandals, present participle (US) sandaling or (UK) sandalling, simple past and past participle (US) sandaled or (UK) sandalled)

  1. To put on sandals.

Noun (2)

sandal (uncountable)

  1. sandalwood
    • And on the tables every clime and age / Jumbled together: celts and calumets, / Claymore and snow-shoe, toys in lava, fans / Of sandal, amber, ancient rosaries[…]1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Prologue”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC

Noun (3)

sandal (plural sandals)

  1. A long narrow boat used on the Barbary coast.

Proper noun capitalized: Sandal

Sandal

  1. A suburb of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE3418).
    Synonyms:
    Sandal Magna

sandal meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

sandal in Hindi

type of footwear
चप्पल cappal

sandal in Tamil

type of footwear
செருப்பு ceruppu, செப்பல் ceppal

sandal in Marathi

type of footwear
चप्पल cappal

sandal in Urdu

type of footwear
چپل cappal
More languagesFewer languages
sandal in Bengali
গন্ধসার gondhośar
sandal in Telugu
చందనము candanamu, పాదుక pāduka
sandal in Malayalam
ചെരുപ്പ് ceruppŭ
sandal in Kannada
ಚಪ್ಪಲಿ cappali
sandal in Odia
ପରାଗ parāga
sandal in Assamese
চেণ্ডেল sendel
sandal in Tagalog
sandalyas
sandal in Arabic
صَنْدَل ṣandal
sandal in Indonesian
sandal
sandal in Persian
صندل sandal
sandal in Thai
รองเท้าแตะ rɔɔng-táao-dtɛ̀, รองเท้าคีบ rɔɔng-táao-kîip
sandal in Vietnamese
dép, dép quai hậu
Kashmiri
چَپٕنؠ capụn'

Examples of sandal in a sentence

  • This morning a bloke stood next to me wearing nothing but sandals.
  • She packed her sandals only as an afterthought, but she was glad she did.
  • After taking off their shoes, socks and sandals at the doorway, the kids were barefoot.

All 40 example sentences with sandal

Synonyms of sandal

Forms of sandal

Noun
pluralsandals
Verb
third-person singular presentsandals
present participle USsandaling
present participle UKsandalling
past participle USsandaled
past USsandaled
past participle UKsandalled
past UKsandalled

Plural of sandal: sandals

Origin of sandal

From Middle English sandal (“sandal”), from Old French sandale, from Latin sandalium, from Ancient Greek σανδάλιον (sandálion), diminutive of σάνδαλον (sándalon, “sandal”), of unknown origin. Often mistakenly parsed as related to sand.

From Middle English sandal (“sandalwood”), from Medieval Latin sandalum, from Byzantine Greek σάνδανον (sándanon), σάνταλον (sántalon), from Arabic صَنْدَل (ṣandal), from Middle Persian [script needed] (cndl /⁠čandal⁠/, “sandalwood”), from Sanskrit चन्दन (candana, “sandalwood”). Doublet of santalum.

From Arabic صَنْدَل (ṣandal), the same word as the shoe sandal, just applied for boats of the shape of this shoe.

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Questions about sandal

What does sandal mean?
Sandal means a type of open shoe made up of straps or bands holding a sole to the foot.
What is sandal in Hindi?
Sandal in Hindi is चप्पल (cappal). See Sandal meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is sandal?
Sandal can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce sandal?
Sandal is pronounced /ˈsændəl/.
What is the plural of sandal?
The plural of sandal is sandals.

Words near sandal in the dictionary

  1. Sandahl
  2. Sandahls
  3. sandak
  4. Sandakan
  5. sandaks
  6. sandal
  7. Sandal Magna
  8. sandal-wood
  9. Sandalan
  10. sandaled
  11. sandaliform

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sandal (page history and authors); Sandal (page history and authors); গন্ধসার (Bengali) (page history and authors); చందనము (Telugu) (page history and authors); ପରାଗ (Odia) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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