Julius Caesar

American  

noun

1. Gaius Julius Caesar.

2. (italics) a tragedy (1600?) by Shakespeare.

3. a walled plain in the first quadrant of the face of the moon: about 55 miles (88 km) in diameter.

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Julius Caesar British  

noun

1. See Caesar

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Julius Caesar ¹ Cultural  

1. A tragedy by William Shakespeare, dealing with the assassination of Julius Caesar and its aftermath. Some famous lines from the play are “Et tu, Brute?” “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears,” and “Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look.”

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Julius Caesar ² Cultural  

1. A Roman general and dictator in the first century b.c. In military campaigns to secure Roman rule over the province of Gaul, present-day France, he gained much prestige. The Roman senate, fearing his power, ordered him to disband his army, but Caesar refused, crossed the Rubicon River, returned to Rome with his army, and made himself dictator. On a subsequent campaign in Asia, he reported to the senate, “I came, I saw, I conquered.” Caesar was assassinated by his friend Brutus (see also Brutus) and others on the ides of March in 44 b.c.

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Example Sentences

The tragic hero in Shakespeare’s magnificent play isn’t Julius Caesar but Marcus Junius Brutus, one of the conspirators who plots to assassinate the Roman dictator.

From The Wall Street Journal

Her husband, who would later write witches and sorcerers and soothsayers into “Macbeth,” “The Tempest” and “Julius Caesar,” is taxed by her psychic gifts.

From Los Angeles Times

On one page were a few lines from Julius Caesar.

From Literature

He raised it in front of the Caesarium, a temple honoring his father, Julius Caesar.

From Literature

Australian schools were Wednesday investigating how a curriculum blunder ended with pupils mistakenly studying Augustus instead of Julius Caesar.

From Barron's