say it: RIT-uhn-hows
rittenhouse is a noun meaning "United States astronomer said to have built the first telescope made in America; also the first director of the United States Mint (1732-1796)". It carries one recorded sense.
United States astronomer said to have built the first telescope made in America; also the first director of the United States Mint (1732-1796)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for rittenhouse come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.