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hamburger

  • noun
  • ham·burger
  • /ˈhæmˌbɜː.ɡə/

A hot sandwich consisting of a patty of cooked ground beef or a meat substitute, in a sliced bun, usually also containing salad vegetables, condiments, or both.

Other meanings

  1. Ingridents used in this type of sandwich

  2. The patty used in such a sandwich.

A kind of

  • sandwich

Word history

From German "Hamburger" (native of Hamburg).

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “hamburger” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.