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rita

1 American  
[rit-uh] / ˈrɪt ə /

noun

Hinduism.
  1. the Vedic concept of cosmic and social order.


Rita 2 American  
[ree-tuh] / ˈri tə /

noun

  1. a female given name, form of Margarita.


Etymology

Origin of rita

From the Sanskrit word ṛta

Example Sentences

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Both Frankie Valli and Rita Coolidge had hits with cover versions.

From The Wall Street Journal

This kind of pushback is both frustrating and emblematic of the problems for which civil thought programs are trying to solve, said Rita Koganzon, a political scientist who teaches a class at SCilLL called “Left, Right and Center: The History of American Political Ideologies.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Rita Devlin, director of the RCN in Northern Ireland, said MLAs must "do better" to justify their pay increase.

From BBC

Born in Greenwich, Conn., on April 12, 1951, Noonan was raised by his math-teacher mother Rita and a large extended family after the death of his father, John Ford Noonan Sr. He went to school at Yale Drama and later founded New York’s Paradise Factory theater with Jack Kruger at the site of the Paradise Ice Cream Factory, where the ice cream cone was invented.

From Los Angeles Times

Among the people directors Jeremiah Hammerling and Rita Baghdadi catch up with 23 years later are Henry Proce, then of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who was assigned to investigate the boys and makes a good case why he had to be.

From The Wall Street Journal