Juliet
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /ˈdʒuːlɪɛt/
  • (America) IPA: /ˌdʒuliˈɛt/, /ˈdʒuliət/
Proper noun
  1. 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."
  2. 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.
  3. A woman who is or is with a great lover.
  4. 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.
  5. (astronomy) The sixth moon of the planet Uranus.
  6. Misspelling of Juliett
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