Definition of Sandwich Islands

1. Noun. A group of volcanic and coral islands in the central Pacific.


Definition of Sandwich Islands

1. Proper noun. (obsolete) Hawaiian Islands (an early name for the archipelago of nineteen Hawaiian Islands) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sandwich Islands

Sandemanians
Sanders
Sandhoff's disease
Sandies
Sandison-Clark chamber
Sandland
Sandor Kellner
Sandoval
Sandra
Sandras
Sandril
Sandro Botticelli
Sandstrom's bodies
Sandwich
Sandwich Islander
Sandwich Islands (current term)
Sandwich Tern
Sandwich Terns
Sandwicher
Sandwichers
Sandy
Sanfilippo's syndrome
Sanfillipo syndrome
Sangamon
Sangay
Sanger
Sanger's reagent
Sanger Coulson method
Sanger method
Sangho

Literary usage of Sandwich Islands

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of Daniel Webster by Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1851)
"CHINA AND THE Sandwich Islands. Message from the President of the United States, on (he Subject of the Trade and Commerce of the United Slates with the ..."

2. The Works of Daniel Webster by Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1851)
"CHINA AND THE Sandwich Islands. Message from the President of the United Stales, on the Subject of the Trade and Commerce of the United Stales with the ..."

3. The Works of Charles Sumner by Charles Sumner (1876)
"But, strong as is my desire, I am not able to see how the line to Japan can be advantageously held to turn aside and stop at the Sandwich Islands. ..."

4. The Works of Daniel Webster by Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1851)
"CHINA AND THE Sandwich Islands. Message from the President of the United States, on the Subject of the Trade and Commerce of the United States with the ..."

5. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke (1817)
"The sudden re volution produced in the customs of the natives of the Sandwich islands, from their intercourse with the Europeans, gives a peculiar interest ..."

6. The Works of Daniel Webster by Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1851)
"CHINA AND THE Sandwich Islands. Message from the President of the United States, on (he Subject of the Trade and Commerce of the United Slates with the ..."

7. The Works of Daniel Webster by Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1851)
"CHINA AND THE Sandwich Islands. Message from the President of the United Stales, on the Subject of the Trade and Commerce of the United Stales with the ..."

8. The Works of Charles Sumner by Charles Sumner (1876)
"But, strong as is my desire, I am not able to see how the line to Japan can be advantageously held to turn aside and stop at the Sandwich Islands. ..."

9. The Works of Daniel Webster by Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1851)
"CHINA AND THE Sandwich Islands. Message from the President of the United States, on the Subject of the Trade and Commerce of the United States with the ..."

10. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke (1817)
"The sudden re volution produced in the customs of the natives of the Sandwich islands, from their intercourse with the Europeans, gives a peculiar interest ..."

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