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sango

Syllables: San·go

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Australia/ˈsæŋəʊ/

sango noun: a sandwich.

Noun (1)

sango (plural sangos or sangoes)

  1. (Australia, colloquial, dated, informal) A sandwich.

Noun (2)

sango (plural sangos)

  1. (UK) A rudimentary wooden bridge in India.
    • We crossed it and another stream a little above their union by a couple of bad sangos, and ascended from its bed by a rocky footpath, winding amongst extensive forests of oak, yew, pine, and horse chesnut, to Camp.1824, Alexander Gerard, Journal of an Excursion through the Himalayah Mountains, from Shipke to the Frontiers of Chinese Tartary, David Brewster (editor), The Edinburgh Journal of Science, Volume 1...
    • Four large mountain torrents, the Dangalee, Dubrane, Loarnad, and Rindee Gadh, join the Ganges from the left bank, and have to be crossed by sangos.1865, Henry Astbury Leveson, The Hunting Grounds of the Old World, page 459

Proper noun capitalized: Sango

Sango

  1. The primary language spoken in the Central African Republic.
    • Sango has 5 million second-language speakers, but only 400,000 native speakers, mainly in the towns.

Synonyms of sango

All synonyms of sango

Forms of sango

Noun
pluralsangos
pluralsangoes
Proper noun
alternative formSangho

Origin of sango

Abbreviation of sandwich (pronounced sangwich) + -o (colloquialising suffix). Australian from 1940s.

Borrowed from Sango Sängö.

Questions about sango

What does sango mean?
Sango means a sandwich.
What part of speech is sango?
Sango can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce sango?
Sango is pronounced /ˈsæŋəʊ/ (Australia).
What is the plural of sango?
The plural of sango is sangos.

Words near sango in the dictionary

  1. sanglier
  2. sangliers
  3. sanglifehrin
  4. sanglifehrins
  5. Sangngagchhoeling
  6. sango
  7. Sangoan
  8. sangoes
  9. sangoma
  10. sangomas
  11. sangos

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