ZURICH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Zurich mean? 

• ZURICH (noun)
  The noun ZURICH has 1 sense:

1. the largest city in Switzerland; located in the northern part of the country

  Familiarity information: ZURICH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ZURICH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The largest city in Switzerland; located in the northern part of the country

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Context example:

Zurich is the center of the German-speaking part of Switzerland

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

Holonyms ("Zurich" is a part of...):

Schweiz; Suisse; Svizzera; Swiss Confederation; Switzerland (a landlocked federal republic in central Europe)

 Context examples 

In a joint-trial held by University College London, in England, and the University of Zurich, in Switzerland, 76 healthy volunteers were given either the drug or a placebo dummy pill.

(Antibiotics Could Prevent, Cure PTSD, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The new research was led by Nicolas Gruber of ETH Zurich in Switzerland and builds on a 2004 NOAA-led studyoffsite link that found that 118 billion metric tons of carbon were absorbed by the global ocean from the start of the Industrial Revolution in 1800 to 1994.

(Global ocean is absorbing more carbon from fossil fuel emissions, NOAA)