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Juliet
//ˌd͡ʒuliˈɛt// name
Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A female given name from Latin.
""All I ask," she says, fitting the cigarette into a holder, "is that you don't call me Juli-et. I cannot abide Juli-et. It maddens me!" "Yes, ma'am." "Here, we say Joolyut. Joolyut. Joolyut. Say it for me.""
- 2 One of the title characters of Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet.
"For never was a story of more woe / Than this of Juliet and her Romeo."
- 3 A woman who is or is with a great lover.
- 4 By analogy with the Shakespeare character, a woman who is in love with a man from a family, party, or country opposing that of her own.
- 5 The sixth moon of the planet Uranus.
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian Giulietta, diminutive of Giulia, from Latin Iūlia, feminine of Iūlius, a Roman family name. Cognate with French Juliette.
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