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.

Example Sentences

These changes extend a pattern already documented by ETH Zurich researchers, and there is no indication that it is slowing.

From Science Daily

Slovenian capital Ljubljana was declared the world's most crypto-friendly city in a report back in April, followed by Hong Kong and Zurich.

From BBC

"The ice giant classification is oversimplified as Uranus and Neptune are still poorly understood," says Luca Morf, PhD student at the University of Zurich and lead author of the work.

From Science Daily

Beate Ditzen, her co-author and colleague at the University of Zurich’s Institute of Psychology, added that having a healthy and reasonably content volunteer group “was important for allowing valid within-group comparisons.”

From The Wall Street Journal

It pounced upon the coincidence that James Joyce, the Dada poet and essayist Tristan Tzara and Vladimir Lenin were all living in Zurich in 1917.

From The Wall Street Journal