swiss
/swɪs/
swiss verb: to prepare (meat, fabric, etc.) by rolling or pounding in order to soften it.
Verb
swiss (third-person singular simple present swisses, present participle swissing, simple past and past participle swissed)
Adjective capitalized: Swiss
Swiss (comparative more Swiss, superlative most Swiss)
- Of, from, or pertaining to Switzerland or the Swiss people.
- 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.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 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”.2020 October 23, Daniel Boffey, “UK presses for use of faster passport gates at EU airports post-Brexit”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2021
Noun capitalized: Swiss
Swiss (countable and uncountable, plural Swisses or Swiss)
- A person from Switzerland or of Swiss descent.
- Synonyms:
- Switzer
- Swiss cheese.
- My favourite sandwich has roast beef and Swiss on rye bread.
Proper noun capitalized: Swiss
Swiss
- Swiss German; the variety of German spoken in Switzerland.
- An unincorporated community in Gasconade County, Missouri, named for Swiss immigrants.
- An unincorporated community in Yancey County, North Carolina.
- An unincorporated community in Nicholas County, West Virginia, named for a Swiss immigrant.
- A town in Burnett County, Wisconsin.
swiss meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali
swiss in Hindi
- स्विस्सिंग
swiss in Tamil
- சுவிட்சர்லாந்துப் பருத்தித் துணி
swiss in Marathi
- स्विस्सिंग, स्वीसला
swiss in Bengali
- সুইজারল্যান্ডীয়
More languagesFewer languages
- swiss in Telugu
- స్విస్సింగ్
- swiss in Malayalam
- സ്വിസ്സിംഗ്, സ്വിസ്സിങ്, സ്വിസ്സിങ്ങ്
- swiss in Kannada
- ಸ್ವಿಸ್ಸಿಂಗ್, ಸ್ವಿಸ್ಗೆ
- swiss in Gujarati
- સ્વિસ્સિંગ
- swiss in Odia
- ସ୍ୱିସିଂ
- swiss in Nepali
- स्विस्सिङ, स्विसिंङ
Synonyms of swiss
Forms of swiss
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | swisses |
| present participle | swissing |
| past participle | swissed |
| past | swissed |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more Swiss |
| superlative | most Swiss |
| Noun | |
| plural | Swisses |
| plural | Swiss |
Origin of swiss
Adopted from Middle French Suisse in circa 1515, alongside the form Switzer directly loaned from German.
Words formed from swiss
Phrases with swiss
- Swiss dot
- Baby Swiss
- Lacy Swiss
- Swiss bank
- Swiss bars
- Swiss pine
- Swiss arrow
- Swiss balls
- Swiss banks
- Swiss chard
- Swiss Guard
- Swiss pines
31 more phrasesFewer phrases
- Swiss rolls
- Swiss steak
- dotted Swiss
- Swiss arrows
- Swiss chards
- Swiss francs
- Swiss Guards
- Swiss shower
- Swiss steaks
- Swiss daggers
- Swiss Germans
- Swiss showers
- Swiss meringue
- Swiss Re Tower
- Swiss meringues
- Swiss stone pine
- Swiss Army knives
- Swiss Reformation
- Swiss stone pines
- Swiss bank account
- Swiss cheese plant
- Swiss bank accounts
- Swiss cheese plants
- Swiss Confederation
- Swiss mountain pine
- Swiss Army penknives
- Swiss Standard German
- admiral of the Swiss Navy
- admirals of the Swiss Navy
- German Swiss Sign Language
- Swiss German Sign Language
Words that rhyme with swiss
Questions about swiss
- What does swiss mean?
- Swiss means to prepare (meat, fabric, etc.) by rolling or pounding in order to soften it.
- What is swiss in Hindi?
- Swiss in Hindi is स्विस्सिंग. See Swiss meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is swiss?
- Swiss can be a verb, an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce swiss?
- Swiss is pronounced /swɪs/.
- What is the past tense of swiss?
- The past tense of swiss is swissed.
Words near swiss in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: swiss (page history and authors); Swiss (page history and authors); swiss (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); swiss (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); swiss (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); Swiss (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); swiss (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); swiss (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); swiss (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); swiss (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); swiss (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); swiss (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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