Switzerlander

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noun

Someone from Switzerland or of Swiss descent.

First used 18th c.Scrabble 26
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Meanings

nounSwitzerlander (plural Switzerlanders)

plural Switzerlanders

  1. uncommonSomeone from Switzerland or of Swiss descent.First known use 18th c.

    The Switzerlanders could not then be certain in what point the rout had taken place ; but fugitives continued to arrive in great numbers, ſome of them having come even from Moreau’s head-quarters, which they had left on the 21ſt at Ulm.

    1799, An Impartial History of the War, from the Commencement of the Revolution in France, Manchester: Sowler and Russell, page 335

Origin

From Switzerland + -er.

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Switzerlander. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Switzerlander

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