Witt

American  

[vit, wit] / vɪt, wɪt /

noun

1. Katarina born 1965, German figure skater.

2. a male given name.

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Witt British  

/ wɪt /

noun

1. See de Witt

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Example Sentences

Our credulity would snap if Mescal’s Shakespeare was the slick talker that his early biographer John Aubrey described as “very good company, of a very redie and pleasant smoothe Witt.”

From Los Angeles Times

When Clase hurled a pitch in the dirt when facing Bobby Witt Jr. of the Kansas City Royals during a game in April, prosecutors allege Clase was thinking about something besides getting Witt out.

From Los Angeles Times

In “The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America,” John Fabian Witt tells the story of a small, left-wing grant maker that, he argues, had a big influence on American politics during the 1920s and ’30s.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Most observers,” Mr. Witt writes, “thought the whole situation a ridiculous lark.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Mr. Witt, a Yale law professor, argues that the fund laid the groundwork for greater racial and economic equality.

From The Wall Street Journal