Judith
pronunciation
How to pronounce Judith in British English:
UK [ˈdʒu:diθ]
How to pronounce Judith in American English:
US [ˈdʒudɪθ]
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- Noun:
- Jewish heroine in one of the books of the Apocrypha; she saved her people by decapitating the Assyrian general Holofernes
- an Apocryphal book telling how Judith saved her people
Word Origin
- Judith
- fem. proper name, from Latin, from Greek Ioudith, from Hebrew Yehudith, fem. of Yehudh "Jewish, Jewess," from Yehudha (see Judah). Judy is a pet form of it.
Example
- 1. Ms judith ? I 've answered all the letters .
- 2. I 'm engaged to judith , wayne.she dumped you , dude .
- 3. Do you not think I guessed , judith ?
- 4. What do you think , judith should I help ?
- 5. Judith now entered into a desultory discourse with deerslayer .