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  Zurich

  noun

  a canton in N Switzerland. 668 sq. mi. (1,730 sq. km).
• Zürich
  Zürich

  noun

  a canton of NE Switzerland: mainly Protestant and German-speaking. Capital: Zürich. Pop: 342 500 (2002 est). Area: 1729 sq km (668 sq miles)

Zurich

American  

[zoor-ik] / ˈzʊər ɪk /

noun

1. a canton in N Switzerland. 668 sq. mi. (1,730 sq. km).

2. the capital of this canton, on the Lake of Zurich.

3. Lake of, a lake in N Switzerland. 25 miles (40 km) long; 34 sq. mi. (88 sq. km).

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Zürich British  

/ ˈtsyːrɪç, ˈzjʊərɪk /

noun

1. a canton of NE Switzerland: mainly Protestant and German-speaking. Capital: Zürich. Pop: 342 500 (2002 est). Area: 1729 sq km (668 sq miles)

2. a city in NE Switzerland, the capital of Zürich canton, on Lake Zürich: the largest city and industrial centre in Switzerland; centre of the Swiss Reformation; financial centre. Pop: 336 821 (1999 est)

3. a lake in N Switzerland, mostly in Zürich canton. Area: 89 sq km (34 sq miles)

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Zurich Cultural  

1. Largest city in Switzerland, situated in the northern part of the country.

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The country's commercial hub and the intellectual center of the German-speaking part of Switzerland, Zurich is known as a world banking center.

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The research was led by Jan Schmutz, a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Zurich, and Andrea Cantisani, a psychiatrist and research associate at the University of Bern.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026

Run as a nonprofit out of Zurich, the organization has no debt and reported cash reserves approaching $3 billion at the end of last year, according to FIFA’s financials.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

The Zurich Cantonal Bank said in a market commentary that the settlement "brings clarity" to a protracted legal dispute, where the litigation has been disclosed as a risk factor in every annual report since 2016.

From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026

They traveled to Zurich, Switzerland, where they enlisted Dignitas, a Swiss nonprofit, to help Brian achieve a painless death.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026

In 1896 he gave up his German citizenship to avoid military conscription and entered the Zurich Polytechnic Institute on a four-year course designed to churn out high school science teachers.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

In a companion study published in Nature Cell Biology led by Professor Ulrike Kutay and collaborators at ETH Zürich in Switzerland, researchers applied the same high resolution mapping strategy to human cells.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 27, 2026

“It’s just this cute little project which became much bigger than we expected,” said Florian Kogelbauer, an author on the paper and a mechanical engineering professor at the public university ETH Zürich.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2024

Spergel says he was moved when, at a planning meeting in Zürich last month, some Ukrainian scientists told him that “they are feeling isolated and forgotten.”

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 17, 2024

Several years ago, Holekamp’s colleague Lily Johnson-Ulrich, a cognitive ecologist from the University of Zürich, drove into the city of Mekele in northern Ethiopia, where hyenas have lived alongside people for hundreds of years.

From National Geographic ● Feb. 8, 2024

Established here in 1763 by a few Zürich gentlemen, with the aid of a workman, named Spengler, from Höchst.

From The Collector's Handbook to Keramics of the Renaissance and Modern Periods by William Chaffers