Switzerland

Speech parts

1. Switzerland - Noun

2. Switzerland - Proper noun

Meaning

Switzerland's location
Switzerland

A country in south central Europe. Official name: Swiss Confederation

Switzerland (uncountable)

(figuratively) A neutral party in a dispute; one who does not take sides.
I’m not getting involved in this argument. I’m Switzerland.

Synonyms

Phrases with the word

Examples

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture. Ernest Hemingway

I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland. Sydney Smith

Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate. Larry David

It is the middle of December now, and we are about to travel to Switzerland - where we plan to ski a little, relax a little, and shoot a Dutch politician a little. Hugh Laurie

England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland. Lydia Maria Child

The Swiss Psalm is the national anthem of Switzerland. Old Swiss German Proverb

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