Juliet
Pronunciation Proper noun
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Pronunciation Proper noun
- A female given name.
- 1977 Timothy Findley, The Wars, Delacorte Press/S. Lawrence, ISBN 044009397X, page 110:
- "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."
- 1977 Timothy Findley, The Wars, Delacorte Press/S. Lawrence, ISBN 044009397X, page 110:
One of the main characters of William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. - c. 1591–1595, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act V, scene iii]:
- For never was a story of more woe / Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
- A woman who is or is with a great lover.
- 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.
- (astronomy) The sixth moon of the planet Uranus.
- Misspelling of Juliett
- French: Juliette
- German: Julia
- Italian: Giulietta
- Portuguese: Julieta
- Russian: Джулье́тта
- Spanish: Julieta
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