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gratz

gratz interjection: congratulations, congrats.

Interjection

  1. (Internet) Congratulations, congrats.
    • Hey, gratz on leveling!

Proper noun capitalized: Gratz

Gratz

  1. A surname.
  2. A city in Kentucky.
  3. A borough of Pennsylvania.

Origin of gratz

A respelled shortening of congrats.

From the German surname, from the city Graz in Austria. Also from a personal name from Old High German gratag (“greedy”), which could ultimately be from Proto-West Germanic *gernō; see Dutch gretig (“eager”). Also shortened from Pankratz.

Questions about gratz

What does gratz mean?
Gratz means congratulations, congrats.
What part of speech is gratz?
Gratz can be an interjection or a proper noun.

Words near gratz in the dictionary

  1. gratulating
  2. gratulation
  3. gratulations
  4. gratulatorily
  5. gratulatory
  6. gratz
  7. Grau
  8. Graubünden
  9. Graue
  10. Grauer
  11. Grauer's broadbill

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