Juliet Definition

jo͝olēet, jo͝olēit; jo͝olēet; jo͝olyit
noun
A feminine name.
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The heroine of Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet.
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pronoun
A female given name.
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One of the main characters of William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet.

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A woman who is or is with a great lover.
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By analogy with the Shakespearean character, a woman who is in love with a man from a family, party, or country opposing that of her own.
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The sixth moon of the planet Uranus.

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Origin of Juliet

  • From Italian Giulietta, diminutive form of Giulia (“Julia”), from Julius, a Roman family name. Cognate with French Juliette.

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Juliet Sentence Examples

  • Her chief tragic roles were Ophelia a Juliet, Desdemona, Queen Anne in Richard III., Louisa Miller, Maria Stuart, Schiller's Princess Eboli, Marion Delorme, Victor Hugo's Tisbe and Slowacki's Mazeppa.

  • At age 21 he was cast as Benvolio in Franco Zeffirelli's film adaption of Romeo and Juliet.

  • Formerly it was the title given to individual members of these orders, as Friar Laurence (in Romeo and Juliet), but this is not now common.

  • He is the Magyarizer of Shakespeare's Anthony and Cleopatra, Othello, Macbeth, Henry VIII., Winter's Tale, Romeo and Juliet and Tempest, as also of some of the best pieces of Burns, Moore, Byron, Shelley, Milton, Beranger, Lamartine, Victor Hugo, Goethe and others.

  • Probably the foremost among them is Sigismund Justh, who died prematurely in the midst of his painful attempt at reconciling French " realistic " modes of thought with what he conceived to be Magyar simplicity (A puszta konyve, " The Book of the Puszta," prairie of Hungary; A Peitz legenddja, " The Legend of Money "; Gdnyo Julcsa, " Juliet Ganyo "; Fuimus).

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