Juliet
Americannoun
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the heroine of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
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(used in communications to represent the letterJ. )
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Also Juliette a female given name, form of Julia.
noun
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When the film came out in 1995, Juliet was living in Portmahomack in Rosshire, where she'd become a crime writer living under her new name, Anne Perry.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
She, like Juliet, had come to the UK, where she had settled in a small village in rural Kent and opened a riding school.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
“The nurse is the face of the hospital, and we’re constantly blamed for things outside our control,” said Juliet Etienne, 29.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
That’s not to say, given the setting and the setup, which betokens tragedy as surely as Romeo meeting Juliet, it doesn’t throb with tension, let’s say, three-quarters of the time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
At ten o’clock one winter evening in early 1935, Houseman slipped backstage at a New York production of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
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