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ritzes

ritzes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of ritz.

Meaning of ritz

Verb

ritz (third-person singular simple present ritzes, present participle ritzing, simple past and past participle ritzed)

  1. (informal) To behave in an ostentatiously elegant manner.
    • What would I do with them in the room except dream all night through of ritzing around the world with swells?1937, Collier's, volume 99, page 69

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Proper noun capitalized: Ritzes

Ritzes

  1. (plural) plural of Ritz

Questions about ritzes

What is ritzes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Ritzes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of ritz.
What part of speech is ritzes?
Ritzes is a proper noun.

Words near ritzes in the dictionary

  1. Ritz series
  2. Ritz's combination principle
  3. ritzed
  4. Ritzer
  5. Ritzers
  6. ritzes
  7. Ritzian
  8. ritzier
  9. ritziest
  10. ritzily
  11. ritziness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ritzes (page history and authors); Ritzes (page history and authors); ritz (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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