Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Swiss.
- noun A Swiss Guard.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A native of Switzerland; a Swiss; specifically, one of a hired body-guard of Swiss (or, by extension, soldiers of other nationality incorporated in this body) attendant on a king or the Pope.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A native or inhabitant of Switzerland; a Swiss.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A native or inhabitant of
Switzerland , aSwiss person. - noun A Swiss Guard.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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SPIEGEL: David Switzer is a doctor in Virginia who writes about the interaction between doctors and reps on a popular Internet website called Cafepharma.
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SPIEGEL: David Switzer is a doctor in Virginia who writes about the interaction between doctors and reps on a popular Internet website called Cafepharma.
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Switzer is the woman who nearly got thrown out of the Boston Marathon in 1967.
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At the mention of this august name Switzer disappears from the rear of the audience and makes his way to the back of the stage.
The Major Ralph Connor 1898
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The body was found a mile from the West Virginia state line near the entrance to an area known as the Switzer Dam entrance road.
Augusta Free Press 2009
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The body was found a mile from the West Virginia state line near the entrance to an area known as the Switzer Dam entrance road.
Augusta Free Press 2009
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They served the kings of France from Louis XL till the tragedy of the Tuileries in 1792; and in that country and elsewhere they made the name "Switzer" a synonym for guard or attendant, [1335] till in 1848 the mercenary system was abolished.
Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897
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Hopefully the "Switzer" edition doesn't become known as the version that made BlogCFC jump the shark.
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Barry Switzer was one of the great pioneers of finding great football players who sure belonged on a little yellow school bus and not at a major university.
Think Progress » Former GOP Congressman J.C. Watts: ‘Social programs’ are the ‘new slavery.’ 2010
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Together, Lebow, Switzer, and Nina Kuscsik, the woman who won the first official women's division at the 1972 Boston Marathon, set out to plaster Manhattan with entry forms.
New York Mini Celebrates 40 Years of Women on the Run Aimee Berg 2011
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