/swɪs/
OriginAdopted from Middle French Suisse in circa 1515, alongside the form Switzer directly loaned from German.
- Of, from, or pertaining to Switzerland or the Swiss people.
“The obstructive tendency attributed to the knot in spiritual matters appears in a Swiss superstition that if, in sewing a corpse into its shroud, you make a knot on the thread, it will hinder the soul”
“The government has said in a paper on the UK’s post-Brexit border operating model that it will “ensure that EU, EEA and Swiss citizens may also continue to use our e-passport gates and the existing qu”
- countableA person from Switzerland or of Swiss descent.
- uncountableSwiss cheese.
“My favourite sandwich has roast beef and Swiss on rye bread.”
- nonstandardSwiss German; the variety of German spoken in Switzerland.
- transitiveTo prepare (meat, fabric, etc.) by rolling or pounding in order to soften it.
Formsmore Swiss(comparative) · most Swiss(superlative) · Swisses(plural) · Swiss(plural) · swisses(present, singular, third-person) · swissing(participle, present) · swissed(participle, past) · swissed(past)
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