SWISS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Swiss mean? 

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

1. the natives or inhabitants of Switzerland

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

• SWISS (adjective)
  The adjective SWISS has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to Switzerland or its people or culture

  Familiarity information: SWISS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SWISS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The natives or inhabitants of Switzerland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Swiss; Swiss people

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)

• SWISS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to Switzerland or its people or culture

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

the Swiss army

Pertainym:

Switzerland (a landlocked federal republic in central Europe)

 Context examples 

The young Swiss had gone too.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The research conducted by scientists at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) looked at the relationship between exposure to RF-EMF from wireless communication devices and memory performance in adolescents.

(Cell Phone Radiation Harmful for Memory, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A cell line derived from fibroblasts of disaggregated Swiss mouse embryos.

(NIH/3T3, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Swiss astronomer Philippe Loys de Chéseaux first discovered its bright star cluster, NGC 6611, in 1745 or 1746 (eso0142).

(VST Captures Three-In-One, ESO)

I could now almost fancy myself among the Swiss mountains.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I doubt if I should have had any, though there had been a Swiss snow-drift in the Kent Road.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It infects DBA/2 and Swiss mice.

(Friend Murine Leukemia Virus, NCI Thesaurus)

NIH general purpose Swiss mice were selected for resistance or sensitivity to histamine challenge following pertussis vaccination.

(FVB/N Mouse, NCI Thesaurus)

The Greater Swiss Mountain Dog is a large, strong, muscular, draft dog.

(Greater Swiss Mountain Dog, NCI Thesaurus)

Derived from Rockefeller Swiss mice that were disseminated to the Institute of Cancer Research in Philadelphia (1948).

(ICR BR Mouse, NCI Thesaurus)