Juliet

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Translingual

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Noun

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Juliet

  1. Misspelling of Juliett from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.

English

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 Juliet on Wikipedia
 Juliet (disambiguation) on Wikipedia
An artist's impression of Juliet.

Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian Giulietta, diminutive of Giulia, from Latin Iūlia, feminine of Iūlius, a Roman family name. Cognate with French Juliette.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Juliet

  1. A female given name from Latin.
    • 1977, Timothy Findley, The Wars, Delacorte Press/S. Lawrence, →ISBN, 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.
  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.

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See also

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Cebuano

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Etymology

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From English Juliet, from Italian Giulietta, diminutive form of Giulia (Julia), from Julius, a Roman family name.

Proper noun

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Juliet

  1. a female given name from English [in turn from Latin]
  2. one of the main characters of William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet
  3. (astronomy) the sixth moon of the planet Uranus

Turkish

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Turkish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Proper noun

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Juliet

  1. (astronomy) Juliet