Definitions

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  • proper noun A female given name
  • proper noun A book of the Old Testament of some Christian Bibles; a book of the Vulgate Apocrypha.
  • proper noun The protagonist of the Biblical book of Judith.
  • proper noun The name of A wife of Esau.

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  • noun Jewish heroine in one of the books of the Apocrypha; she saved her people by decapitating the Assyrian general Holofernes
  • noun an Apocryphal book telling how Judith saved her people

Etymologies

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From Hebrew יְהוּדִית (Y'hudít, "woman from Judea, Jewess")

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Examples

  • Next time you write a fake note from your mother, remember that the name Judith is not spelled J-U-D-E-E-T-H.

    Alienated DAVID O. RUSSELL 2009

  • Next time you write a fake note from your mother, remember that the name Judith is not spelled J-U-D-E-E-T-H.

    Alienated DAVID O. RUSSELL 2009

  • Post's wife, Judith, is a doctor with multiple specialties and a professor of radiology at the University of Miami.

    Kentucky castle turned into popular luxury hotel 2010

  • I know which stories I read in Judith Merril anthologies because my copies of those anthologies have yellowing pages and green edges and a particular narrow typeface that I would know anywhere.

    MIND MELD: The Pros and Cons of eBooks 2009

  • His wife Judith is dating another man who is physically no less than repugnant.

    Matthew Yglesias » Is The Universe a Hologram? Should We Care? 2010

  • Valentine is fictional, a character in Judith Krantz's Scruples, a book that positively sizzles with brand-name-dropping, put there not as paid product placement but as verisimilitude of an especially glamorous kind.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Roger Sutton 2008

  • Valentine is fictional, a character in Judith Krantz's Scruples, a book that positively sizzles with brand-name-dropping, put there not as paid product placement but as verisimilitude of an especially glamorous kind.

    Branded Roger Sutton 2008

  • * Judith is from Australia and I am the best.person. ever because I am resisting any and all Australia-type jokes such as ....

    Blog of the Day: The New Misrule Blog 2007

  • Judith is a fan of Good TV (Buffy, Veronica Mars, etc.) * But I just found it at Amazon so I'm adding it to my Wish List.

    Blog of the Day: The New Misrule Blog 2007

  • The Book of Judith is therefore the premier example of fantasy writing in the Bible.

    Archive 2007-06-01 2007

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