Swiss

Adopted from Middle French Suisse in circa 1515, alongside the form Switzer directly loaned from German.

• IPA^(key): /swɪs/

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• Homophone: swiss
• Rhymes: -ɪs

Swiss (comparative more Swiss, superlative most Swiss)

1. Of, from, or pertaining to Switzerland or the Swiss people.
   • 1911, James George Frazer, chapter V, in Taboo and the Perils of the Soul (The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion; II), third edition, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, page 310:

     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 of the deceased on its passage to eternity.

• Alemannic
• Swiss German

Swiss (countable and uncountable, plural Swisses or Swiss)

1. (countable) A person from Switzerland or of Swiss descent.
2. (uncountable) Swiss cheese.

   My favourite sandwich has roast beef and Swiss on rye bread.

Swiss

1. (nonstandard) Swiss German; the variety of German spoken in Switzerland.

From English Swiss, reinforced by French Suisse.

• IPA^(key): /ˈs(u)wɪs/
• Rhymes: -is

Swiss

1. Switzerland (a country in Western Europe and Central Europe)

Swiss

1. Swiss

• (countries of Europe) negara-negara di Eropa; Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belanda, Belarus, Belgia, Bosnia dan Herzegovina, Britania Raya, Bulgaria, Ceko, Denmark, Estonia, Finlandia, Georgia, Hongaria, Irlandia, Islandia, Italia, Jerman, Kazakhstan, Kroasia, Latvia, Listenstaina, Lituania, Luksemburg, Makedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monako, Montenegro, Norwegia, Perancis, Polandia, Portugal, Rumania, Rusia, San Marino, Serbia, Siprus, Slovenia, Slowakia, Spanyol, Swedia, Swiss, Turki, Ukraina, Yunani, Vatikan

• “Swiss” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.