JUDITH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Judith mean? 

• JUDITH (noun)
  The noun JUDITH has 2 senses:

1. Jewish heroine in one of the books of the Apocrypha; she saved her people by decapitating the Assyrian general Holofernes

2. an Apocryphal book telling how Judith saved her people

  Familiarity information: JUDITH used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JUDITH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Jewish heroine in one of the books of the Apocrypha; she saved her people by decapitating the Assyrian general Holofernes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

heroine (a woman possessing heroic qualities or a woman who has performed heroic deeds)

Domain category:

Apocrypha (14 books of the Old Testament included in the Vulgate (except for II Esdras) but omitted in Jewish and Protestant versions of the Bible; eastern Christian churches (except the Coptic Church) accept all these books as canonical; the Russian Orthodox Church accepts these texts as divinely inspired but does not grant them the same status)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An Apocryphal book telling how Judith saved her people

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Book of Judith; Judith

Instance hypernyms:

book (a major division of a long written composition)

Holonyms ("Judith" is a part of...):

Apocrypha (14 books of the Old Testament included in the Vulgate (except for II Esdras) but omitted in Jewish and Protestant versions of the Bible; eastern Christian churches (except the Coptic Church) accept all these books as canonical; the Russian Orthodox Church accepts these texts as divinely inspired but does not grant them the same status)