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sandal
(sændəl)
Word forms: plural sandals
countable noun
Sandals are light shoes that you wear in warm weather, which have straps instead of a solid part over the top of your foot.
sandal in British English
(ˈsændəl)
noun
1.
a light shoe consisting of a sole held on the foot by thongs, straps, etc
2.
a strap passing over the instep or around the ankle to keep a low shoe on the foot
Derived forms
sandalled (ˈsandalled) adjective
Word origin
C14: from Latin sandalium, from Greek sandalion a small sandal, from sandalon sandalsandal in American English 1
(ˈsændəl)
noun
1.
a kind of footwear consisting of a sole fastened in various ways to the foot by straps over the instep or toes, or around the ankle
2.
any of various low slippers or shoes
Derived forms
sandaled (ˈsandaled) adjective or ˈsandalled
Word origin
ME sandalie < L sandalium < Gr sandalion, dim. of sandalonsandal in American English 2
(ˈsændəl)
noun
sandalwood
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Examples of 'sandal' in a sentencesandal
In other languagessandal
British English: sandal /ˈsændl/ NOUN
Sandals are light shoes that have straps instead of a solid part over the top of your foot.
...a pair of old sandals.
- American English: sandal
- Arabic: صَنْدَل حذاء
- Brazilian Portuguese: sandália
- Chinese: 凉鞋
- Croatian: sandala
- Czech: sandál
- Danish: sandal
- Dutch: sandaal
- European Spanish: sandalia
- Finnish: sandaali
- French: sandale
- German: Sandale
- Greek: σανδάλι
- Italian: sandalo
- Japanese: サンダル
- Korean: 샌들
- Norwegian: sandal
- Polish: sandał
- European Portuguese: sandália
- Romanian: sandală
- Russian: сандалия
- Latin American Spanish: sandalia
- Swedish: sandal
- Thai: รองเท้าแตะ
- Turkish: sandalet
- Ukrainian: сандаля
- Vietnamese: giày sandal
Chinese translation of 'sandal'
sandal
(ˈsændl)
n (c)
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凉(涼)鞋
(liángxié) (双(雙), shuāng)