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🧑‍🎓 A surname 🏔️ A Swiss person
Switzer

Switzer

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A last name used by people, often from Europe
  • proper noun
translation icon : Switzer
  • Barry Switzer was a legendary football coach known for his success at the University of Oklahoma.
  • Katherine Switzer

Examples

  • Katherine Switzer would go on to advocate women's right to run in this marathon.

    Academic text (2013)

  • Wait a second, Inspector Switzer has to be informed.

    Dark Angel (1990)

  • Anyway, go see Switzer and let me know what he says.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • Let him finish, and then you can take it to Switzer.

    Dark Angel (1990)

  • "Well, you take care of the recovery, and let me handle Switzer, okay?"

    Fiction book (1994)

  • We will report to Inspector Switzer daily.

    Dark Angel (1990)

  • "Have you been taking those pills I gave you?" Switzer asked.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • Detective Caine, this is Agent Switzer of the FBI.

    Dark Angel (1990)

  • "Yes," said Switzer, who clearly understood exactly what he'd meant and didn't much like it.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • A Boston Marathon official attempts to remove Katherine Switzer from the 1967 marathon.

    Academic text (2013)

Surface Forms

Switzer main

Etymology

Switzer as a surname comes from the old name for people from Switzerland, the same root as Swiss, so a family called Switzer originally meant 'a person from Switzerland'.