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

In recent weeks, he’s been talking to other people about Napoleon and Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, comparing himself to the most consequential Western leaders in history.

From Slate • May 7, 2026

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

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

From Barron's • Oct. 29, 2025

Not much mention is made of Alexandria’s library—first set on fire accidentally by Julius Caesar and damaged fatally over the ensuing years—or its epic lighthouse, one of the fabled Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 14, 2025

I don’t know how many times Coach Quatrini used the word “faster,” but if a word can get worn out and die, this one died like Julius Caesar.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt