Julius

[jool-yuh s]

noun

a male given name: a Roman family name.

Julius I

noun

Saint,died a.d. 352, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 337–352.

Julius II

noun

Giuliano della Rovere, 1443–1513, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1503–13.

Julius III

noun

Giammaria Ciocchi del MonteGiovanni Maria del Monte, 1487–1555, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1550–55.

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Examples from the Web for julius

Contemporary Examples of julius

We do have the writings of Sextus Julius Frontinus—but what he wrote was a treatise on aqueducts.
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Candida Moss, Joel Baden
October 5, 2014
Inside was Mandelbaum, her twenty-four-year-old son Julius, and her most trusted confidant, Herman Stoude.
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J. North Conway
September 7, 2014
One of the few Americans to respond was Charlton Heston, with whom she had starred in Julius Caesar in 1970.
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Nico Hines
August 22, 2014
The second is the first generation born in America: people like Julius Shulman, Paul Rand, Alex Steinweiss, and Alvin Lustig.
How Jews Created American Modernism
Andrew Romano
August 1, 2014
When Julius reports that the day after the Mahler benefited from “some new intensity,” we identify.
Teju Cole’s Keen Eye Spares No One—Himself Included
Benjamin Lytal
July 9, 2014

Historical Examples of julius

Romeo and Juliet was to be performed in the afternoon, and Julius Caesar in the evening.
The Foolish Lovers
St. John G. Ervine
What did Julius Caesar do when a party of senators tried to ruin him?
Introductory American History
Henry Eldridge Bourne
He'd taken the cap'n's picture, and Julius's and Van Doozen's.
Cape Cod Stories
Joseph C. Lincoln
Julius, who was mate, was roosting on the lee rail amid-ships, helping him swear.
Cape Cod Stories
Joseph C. Lincoln
Upon that Julius was resolved, and the resolve was highly laudable.
The Life of Cesare Borgia
Raphael Sabatini

British Dictionary definitions for julius

Julius II

noun

original name Guiliano della Rovere. 1443–1513, pope (1503–13). He completed the restoration of the Papal States to the Church, began the building of St Peter's, Rome (1506), and patronized Michelangelo, Raphael, and Bramante

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Word Origin and History for julius

Julius

masc. proper name, from Latin Iulius, name of a Roman gens, perhaps a contraction of *Iovilios "pertaining to or descended from Jove."