JULIUS CAESAR

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• JULIUS CAESAR (noun)
  The noun JULIUS CAESAR has 1 sense:

1. conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC)

  Familiarity information: JULIUS CAESAR used as a noun is very rare.

• JULIUS CAESAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Caesar; Gaius Julius Caesar; Julius Caesar

Instance hypernyms:

full general; general (a general officer of the highest rank)

national leader; solon; statesman (a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs)

Derivation:

Julian (of or relating to or characteristic of Julius Caesar)

 Context examples 

It was Covent Garden Theatre that I chose; and there, from the back of a centre box, I saw Julius Caesar and the new Pantomime.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

How many a time have we mourned over the dead body of Julius Caesar, and to be'd and not to be'd, in this very room, for his amusement?

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)