Definition of "Swiss"

Swiss

/swɪs/

adjective
comparative more Swiss, superlative most Swiss
1. Of, from, or pertaining to Switzerland or the Swiss people.
  Quotations
  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
noun
countable and uncountable, plural Swisses or Swiss
1. (countable) A person from Switzerland or of Swiss descent.
2. (uncountable) Swiss cheese.
proper noun
1. (nonstandard) Swiss German; the variety of German spoken in Switzerland.