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sandwiches

UK/ˈsænˌ(d)wɪ.d͡ʒɪz/US/ˈsænˌ(d)wɪ.t͡ʃɪz/

sandwiches is the plural of sandwich.

sandwiches is the third-person singular simple present indicative of sandwich.

Meaning of sandwich

Noun

sandwich (plural sandwiches or (rare) sandwichs)

  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.
    • The most famous place in Copenhagen, Ida Davidsen, has a menu of 190 different kinds of open sandwich.2020 January 21, Brontë Aurell, The Little Book of Scandi Living, White Lion Publishing, →ISBN, page 51
  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.
    • […] our local agricultural fair in Warwickshire even has a category for Victoria sandwiches baked by male bakers.2016, Alysa Levene, Cake: A Slice of History
  4. (archaic) A sandwichman (one who wears a sandwich board).
    • We have, and not so very long ago, seen women employed as 'sandwiches'.Pall Mall Gazette, quoted in 2004, Chris Jenks, Urban Culture, page 129

See all 15 meanings of sandwich

Proper noun capitalized: Sandwiches

Sandwiches

  1. (plural) plural of Sandwich

Noun capitalized: Sandwiches

Sandwiches

  1. (plural) plural of Sandwich

Forms of sandwiches

alternative formsandwichs

Phrases with sandwiches

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Questions about sandwiches

What is sandwiches the plural of?
Sandwiches is the plural of sandwich.
What part of speech is sandwiches?
Sandwiches can be a proper noun or a noun.
How do you pronounce sandwiches?
Sandwiches is pronounced /ˈsænˌ(d)wɪ.d͡ʒɪz/ (UK).

Words near sandwiches in the dictionary

  1. sandwiched
  2. Sandwicher
  3. sandwicheries
  4. Sandwichers
  5. sandwichery
  6. sandwiches
  7. sandwiching
  8. sandwichless
  9. sandwichlike
  10. sandwichman
  11. sandwichmen

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sandwiches (page history and authors); Sandwiches (page history and authors); sandwich (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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