juliet
juliet Lexical Profile
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• noun
The young female protagonist of William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet, or by extension, a passionate and devoted young female lover.
"Every aspiring actress in the theater company hoped to be cast as Juliet in the summer production."
A code word representing the letter J in the NATO phonetic alphabet, used in aviation, maritime, and telecommunications to ensure clear voice transmission.
"The pilot read back the taxiway designation as Juliet Four to the air traffic controller."
A small inner moon of the planet Uranus, discovered in 1986 by the Voyager 2 spacecraft and named after Shakespeare's tragic heroine.
"Astronomers observed that Juliet orbits Uranus inside the planet's narrow ring system."
Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed from French Juliette, a diminutive of Julie, which derives from the Roman family name Julius, popularized in English by William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595).
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