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frankfurter

frankfurter

3 2.0
A smooth, smoky sausage of pork or beef often served in a bread roll
  • noun
  • /ˈfræŋkfərtər/
translation icon : frankfurt
  • For lunch, I had a delicious frankfurter in a warm bread roll.

Do you understand that both Hamburgers and Frankfurters?

Examples

Synonyms

dog
vsfrankfurter
627 8.4

A thin cooked sausage often served in a bread roll

is the standard descriptive term rather than the colloquial one
hot dog
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252 1.0

A cooked sausage in a sliced bun, often with mustard or ketchup

is the sausage itself often mentioned without the sandwich context
sausage
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184 1.0

A food made from ground meat and spices in a thin skin

is a particular smooth smoked variety rather than sausages in general
wiener
vsfrankfurter
  • US
69 1.8

A small cooked sausage often served in a bread roll like a hot dog

is the same sausage referred to with a different conventional term
weenie
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  • US
44 6.8

A small soft sausage made from beef or pork and often served in a bun

is the formal or neutral label for that same sausage
hotdog
vsfrankfurter
19 1.0

A cooked sausage in a sliced bun often eaten as fast food

is the specific smooth smoked sausage, not the sandwich form
bratwurst
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13 4.5

A German sausage people make from pork and often cook on a grill to eat in a bread roll

is a smoked smooth sausage usually not prepared by grilling
frank
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  • US
9 3.2

A smooth sausage usually made from beef or pork and eaten in a roll

is the exact same sausage under a different name
banger
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  • UK
6 8.2

A pork sausage often served with mashed potatoes

is typically served in a roll rather than with traditional British sides
Vienna sausage
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5 3.6

A small thin cooked sausage sold in cans or jars

is a longer smoked fresh sausage typically served in a bread roll
pork sausage
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3 1.0

A food people make from ground pork and spices inside a skin and cook

allows either pork or beef as its main meat rather than only pork
knackwurst
vsfrankfurter
2 8.6

A short thick German sausage usually made from pork and beef

is smoother and less heavily seasoned than that German style
knockwurst
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  • US
2 8.1

A short, thick German sausage made from pork and beef

is milder and smooth in texture rather than thick and heavily spiced
wienerwurst
vsfrankfurter
8.8

A thin smoked sausage made from beef or pork often served in a bun

is the identical sausage labeled with another traditional name

Compounds

A long soft bread roll for holding a cooked sausage like a hot dog

Surface Forms

frankfurter singular
frankfurters plural

Morphology

frankfurter = Frankfurt (semi-transparent) = Frankfurt + er

Formally derived from the place name Frankfurt + the suffix -er (denoting origin), but the specific meaning 'a type of sausage' is a cultural lexical convention not directly predictable from the base.

Etymology

The word frankfurter comes from the German city Frankfurt and originally meant a sausage 'from Frankfurt'. So today a frankfurter is the name for the long, smooth sausage often served in a bread roll, much like hamburger is named for Hamburg.