Juliet

From Italian Giulietta, diminutive form of Giulia (“Julia”), from Julius, a Roman family name. Cognate with French Juliette.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdʒuːlɪɛt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌdʒuliˈɛt/, /ˈdʒuljət/

Juliet

1. A female given name.
   • 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.
   • 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, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:

     , 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. The letter J in the ICAO spelling alphabet.

• Romeo
• Juliett
• Capulet
• Montague

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

Juliet

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