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.

   • 2020 October 23, Daniel Boffey, “UK presses for use of faster passport gates at EU airports post-Brexit”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     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 queueing arrangements”.

• Alemannic
• Swiss German

Swiss (countable and uncountable, plural Swisses or Swiss)

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

   Synonym: Switzer

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 (comparative lebih Swiss, superlative paling Swiss)

1. Swiss

• “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.