ritter

¹

[rit-er]

noun

plural

ritter, ritters 

1. a knight.

2. a member of the lowest order of nobility in Germany or Austria.

Ritter

²

[rit-er]

noun

1. Joseph Elmer, 1891–1967, U.S. cardinal.

2. Woodward Maurice Tex, 1907–74, U.S. country-and-western singer, composer, and film actor.

Word History and Origins

Origin of ritter¹

1815–25; < German; Middle High German riter rider

Example Sentences

When Columbia University law and MBA student Michelle Ritter met former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt in 2020, she said she wanted to pitch a potential investment in a sports tech startup she had been developing.

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Google is also named as a defendant in the lawsuit and is alleged to “knowingly acquiescing in, failing to remedy, and materially assisting the unauthorized access” into Ritter’s accounts despite being provided notice.

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In her new lawsuit, Ritter alleges that Schmidt has not honored the settlement due to false accusations she was behind a media leak.

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The bitter dispute with Ritter echoes another business disagreement he had with public relations executive Marcy Simon, with whom he had a two-decade relationship that ended in 2014.

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In the application for the December 2024 restraining order, Ritter alleged she lived in an “absolute digital surveillance system” and that Schmidt had directed affiliates to steal her corporate website, take control of her digital business records and have personal investigators follow her parents, according to a court filing.

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