SWITZERLAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Switzerland mean? 

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

1. a landlocked federal republic in central Europe

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SWITZERLAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A landlocked federal republic in central Europe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Schweiz; Suisse; Svizzera; Swiss Confederation; Switzerland

Instance hypernyms:

European country; European nation (any one of the countries occupying the European continent)

Meronyms (parts of "Switzerland"):

Interlaken (a popular resort town in the Alps in west central Switzerland)

Weisshorn (a mountain in the Alps in Switzerland (14,804 feet high))

Rhone; Rhone River (a major French river; flows into the Mediterranean near Marseilles)

Rhein; Rhine; Rhine River (a major European river carrying more traffic than any other river in the world; flows into the North Sea)

Matterhorn (a mountain in the Alps on the border between Switzerland and Italy (14,780 feet high); noted for its distinctive shape)

Lake Geneva; Lake Leman (a lake between southwestern Switzerland and France that is crossed from east to west by the Rhone)

Alps; the Alps (a large mountain system in south-central Europe; scenic beauty and winter sports make them a popular tourist attraction)

Aar; Aare; Aare River (a river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine)

Zurich (the largest city in Switzerland; located in the northern part of the country)

Lausanne (a city in western Switzerland; cultural and commercial center)

Geneva; Geneve; Genf (a city in southwestern Switzerland at the western end of Lake Geneva; it is the headquarters of various international organizations)

Bale; Basel; Basle (a city in northwestern Switzerland)

Bern; Berne; capital of Switzerland (the capital of Switzerland; located in western Switzerland)

Swiss canton (one of the cantons of Switzerland)

Savoy (a geographical region of historical importance; a former duchy in what is now southwestern France, western Switzerland, and northwestern Italy)

Tessin; Ticino (an Italian-speaking region of southern Switzerland)

Domain member region:

battle of Sempach; Sempach (the Swiss Confederation escaped Hapsburg domination by their victory in 1386)

commune (the smallest administrative district of several European countries)

International Relations and Security Network; ISN (Switzerland's information network for security and defense studies and for peace and conflict research and for international relations)

Instance hyponyms:

Helvetia (the Latin name for Switzerland)

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

Europe (the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use 'Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles)

 Context examples 

We have been in France, Switzerland, Italy, in fact, almost all parts.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

However, according to a researcher at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) in Switzerland, these concepts may be no longer valid: the phenomena they are supposed to describe can be demonstrated without them.

(There May Be No Dark Matter, Dark Energy in Universe, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

An aged count once lived in Switzerland, who had an only son, but he was stupid, and could learn nothing.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

But I couldn't, and when I saw her in Switzerland, everything seemed to clear up all at once.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

After the murder of Clerval I returned to Switzerland, heart-broken and overcome.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Collaborators from the Institute for Research in Biomedicine in Switzerland then cloned antibody-producing B cells from the survivor to make mAbs for potential use as a therapeutic for Ebola infection.

(Experimental Ebola antibody protects monkeys, NIH)

An area in east-central Switzerland also experienced similar high rainfall totals.

(France's Flooding Rains Examined by NASA’s IMERG, NASA)

Queloz and Mayor, both from Switzerland, won their prize for discovering the first known exoplanet in 1995.

(Swedish academy announces 2019 Nobel Prize winners in physics, Wikinews)

“One could say that this planet gets rainy in the evening, except it rains iron,” says David Ehrenreich, a professor at the University of Geneva in Switzerland.

(ESO Telescope Observes Exoplanet Where It Rains Iron, ESO)

The studies that were reviewed included people from seven different countries – the US, Canada, Spain, Italy, Australia, Switzerland and China.

(People Living Near Parks in Cities Less Likely to Face Early Death, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)