Montague

American  

[mon-tuh-gyoo] / ˈmɒn təˌgyu /

noun

1. (in Shakespeare'sRomeo and Juliet ) the family name of Romeo.

2. William Pepperell 1873–1953, U.S. philosopher.

3. a male given name.

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Usage

What does Montague mean? Montague is the family name of the character Romeo from William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet.Romeo is the son of Lord and Lady Montague. The house of Montague is in a bitter feud with the house of Capulet for reasons never revealed in the play. Other characters on the side of the Montagues include Lord Montague’s nephew Benvolio, Romeo’s friend Mercutio, and the servants Abram and Balthasar.In the play, Romeo falls in love with Juliet Capulet at first sight. Because of the feud, they meet in secret and eventually secretly get married. Later, Romeo is exiled from the city after killing Juliet’s cousin Tybalt out of revenge for Tybalt’s accidental killing of Mercutio.Hearing of Romeo’s exile, Juliet devises a plan in which she fakes her own death so that she can meet Romeo in the Capulet family tomb. However, Romeo believes Juliet to actually be dead and kills himself with poison to join her in the afterlife. Upon discovering that Romeo is dead, Juliet stabs herself to death. The deaths of their children cause Lord Montague and Lord Capulet to end their feud.

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Example Sentences

Other Shakespeare characters given musical attention by Prokofiev—such as the heads of the Capulet and Montague families, Juliet’s Nurse, Friar Lawrence and Paris—are not found here.

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Montague plotting, are never explained—into the nether reaches beneath the hall’s seating area proves an intriguing stroke.

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Yes, Montague’s plan in Shirley Jackson’s modern gothic tale is to explore the “various unsavory stories” about the 80-year-old mansion, but he keeps the full extent of his planned experiment to himself.

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Dr. John Montague knows that he is renting Hill House for the summer to study its ghosts, but he sends a group of guests a much vaguer invitation “to spend all or part of a summer at a comfortable country house” with him.

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Other invitees include a flighty young woman named Theodora and the homeowner’s nephew Luke; they join the scheming Montague and the home’s caretakers, Mr. and Mrs. Dudley.

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