A city in central Switzerland, situated to the east of Lake Lucerne, the capital of a canton of the same name; population 14,193 (2007). The canton was one of the three original cantons of the Swiss Confederation, to which it gave its name.
Definition of Schwyz in US English:
Schwyz
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A canton in northeastern Switzerland, one of the three original cantons of the Swiss Confederation, to which it gave its name.