ritz
A display of ostentatious eleganceA display of ostentatious elegance.
/ɹɪts/
» The wedding took place in the Ritz Hotel.
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1 senses(informal, uncountable)A display of ostentatious elegance.
ostentatious display of elegance
Examples
2 sentencesThe wedding took place in the Ritz Hotel.
The wedding took place at the Ritz Hotel.
Origin
Back-formation from ritzy.Back-formation from ritzy.
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Synonyms
1 synonymsClose in meaning
- Swiss hotelier who created a chain of elegant hotels (1850-1918):Cesar Ritz
Word family
1 related wordsRelatedritzy
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.