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

Britain's earliest major encounter with Ancient Rome occurred in 55BCE, when Julius Caesar led a military campaign to what is now Kent.

From Science Daily • Jan. 25, 2026

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 • Dec. 26, 2025

But the curriculum changed in 2025 to focus on Julius Caesar instead -- although it appeared not every school got the memo.

From Barron's • Oct. 29, 2025

In the video, she has the quote, “Et tu, Brute” from William Shakespeare’s "Julius Caesar" written on her chair as a reference to West stabbing her in the back.

From Salon • Apr. 24, 2024

“You know what happened to Julius Caesar on the ides of March?”

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt