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SWISS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The natives or inhabitants of Switzerland
Synonyms:
Swiss; Swiss people
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Swiss" is a kind of...):
country; land; nation (the people who live in a nation or country)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Swiss"):
Genevan (a native or resident of Geneva)
Helvetian (a native of Switzerland)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to Switzerland or its people or culture
Example:
the Swiss army
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Switzerland (a landlocked federal republic in central Europe)
Context examples:
Now, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Geneva and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), they have extended the cultures to reveal a capacity of mouse stem cells to produce ‘pseudo-embryos’ that display some of the important characteristics of a normal mouse embryo.
(Scientists develop mouse ‘embryo-like structures’ with organisation along body’s major axes, University of Cambridge)
In 2007-2008, the population growth rate (PGR) of the Czech Republic almost tripled, that of the Netherlands doubled, while the Swiss and the French rates showed solid increases, from 0.67% to 1.13% and from 0.62% to 0.93%, respectively.
(Is the Global Crisis Triggering Basic Instincts?, BOGDAN FLORIN PAUL)
We had turned to do so, when we saw a Swiss lad come running along it with a letter in his hand.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He is desirous to be a true Swiss and to enter into foreign service, but we cannot part with him, at least until his elder brother returns to us.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The people was just as good to me, and I should have gone from town to town, maybe the country through, but that I got news of her being seen among them Swiss mountains yonder.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
However, because the Swiss astronomer’s catalogue never achieved wider renown, Messier’s re-discovery of the Omega Nebula in 1764 led to its becoming Messier 17, the seventeenth object in the Frenchman’s popular compendium (eso0925).
(VST Captures Three-In-One, ESO)
The Swiss youth was never found again, and there can be no doubt that he was one of the numerous agents whom Moriarty kept in his employ.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As it drew nearer I observed that it was the Swiss diligence; it stopped just where I was standing, and on the door being opened, I perceived Henry Clerval, who, on seeing me, instantly sprung out.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
It was finally agreed, however, that he should retain the young Swiss messenger with him as guide and companion while I returned to Meiringen.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She busied herself with following the aerial creations of the poets; and in the majestic and wondrous scenes which surrounded our Swiss home —the sublime shapes of the mountains, the changes of the seasons, tempest and calm, the silence of winter, and the life and turbulence of our Alpine summers—she found ample scope for admiration and delight.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
