SANDAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sandal mean? 

• SANDAL (noun)
  The noun SANDAL has 1 sense:

1. a shoe consisting of a sole fastened by straps to the foot

  Familiarity information: SANDAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SANDAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A shoe consisting of a sole fastened by straps to the foot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("sandal" is a kind of...):

shoe (footwear shaped to fit the foot (below the ankle) with a flexible upper of leather or plastic and a sole and heel of heavier material)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sandal"):

espadrille (a sandal with a sole made of rope or rubber and a cloth upper part)

flip-flop; thong (a backless sandal held to the foot by a thong between the big toe and the second toe)

huarache; huaraches (a sandal with flat heels and an upper of woven leather straps)

pusher; zori (a sandal attached to the foot by a thong over the toes)

scuffer (a lightweight flexible sandal with a sturdy sole; worn as play shoes by children and as sportswear by adults)

talaria (a winged sandal (as worn by Hermes in Graeco-Roman art))

 Context examples 

I have seen him ere now, with monk's gown trussed to his knees, over his sandals in blood in the fore-front of the battle.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Thence a narrow passage led into the hall: in crossing it, I perceived my sandal was loose; I stopped to tie it, kneeling down for that purpose on the mat at the foot of the staircase.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

An’ wasn’t it a week later that the poor little ladies was put ashore on the other side of the island, with nothin’ before ’em but to walk home acrost the mountains on their weeny-teeny little straw sandals which wouldn’t hang together a mile?

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

If your eyes were upon your sandals, how came ye to see this smile of which ye prate?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A dress of rose-coloured satin, very short, and as full in the skirt as it could be gathered, replaced the brown frock she had previously worn; a wreath of rosebuds circled her forehead; her feet were dressed in silk stockings and small white satin sandals.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

As regards the maid, too, it is true that I did heft her over the stream, she having on her hosen and shoon, whilst I had but my wooden sandals, which could take no hurt from the water.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A quiet land is this—a land where the slow-moving Basque, with his flat biretta-cap, his red sash and his hempen sandals, tills his scanty farm or drives his lean flock to their hill-side pastures.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sleepy old brother Athanasius, at the porter's cell, had a fleeting vision of twinkling feet and flying skirts; but before he had time to rub his eyes the recreant had passed the lodge, and was speeding as fast as his sandals could patter along the Lyndhurst Road.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)