Julius Caesar

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noun

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

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

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Words nearby Julius Caesar

Julie, julienne, Juliet, Juliet cap, Julius, Julius Caesar, Julius I, Julius II, Julius III, Jullundur, July

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How to use Julius Caesar in a sentence

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One of the few Americans to respond was Charlton Heston, with whom she had starred in Julius Caesar in 1970.
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Julius Caesar and his soldiers drank cider made from crabapples in 55 BC.
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Julius Caesar established the Acta Diurna to weaken his political opponents by revealing the proceedings of government.
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Julius Caesar was supposedly able to dictate two letters at the same time to different scribes.
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What sincerity was there in Julius Caesar when he discharged the duties of high-priest of the Republic?
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British Dictionary definitions for Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

noun

See Caesar (def. 1)

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Cultural definitions for Julius Caesar (1 of 2)

Julius Caesar

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

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.