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Winterthur

American  
[vin-ter-toor, vin-tuhr-toor] / ˈvɪn tərˌtʊər, ˈvɪn tərˌtur /

noun

  1. a city in Zurich canton, in N Switzerland, NE of Zurich.


Winterthur British  
/ ˈvɪntərtuːr /

noun

  1. an industrial town in NE central Switzerland, in Zürich canton: has the largest technical college in the country. Pop: 90 483 (2000)

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The initiative is run by researchers from the University of Delaware in collaboration with Delaware's Winterthur Museum.

From BBC • Apr. 25, 2024

Hannes Keller was born on Sept. 20, 1934, in Winterthur, Switzerland.

From New York Times • Jan. 13, 2023

A reorganisation turns CS Holding into Credit Suisse Group and drops the SKA name; it also buys insurer Winterthur, a strategic partner.

From Reuters • Oct. 27, 2022

According to historian Frederick C. Moffatt, writing in the Winterthur Portfolio, about half the roughly 40 cities Cogswell approached agreed to take his fountains.

From Washington Post • Aug. 27, 2022

In 1863 he was appointed organist at Winterthur in Switzerland, where he lived in obscurity for a number of years, occupying himself with composition during his leisure hours.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various