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Judith

ju·dith

UK/ˈd͡ʒuːdɪθ/ US/ˈdʒudɪθ/ fairly common

noun

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

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Origin

Ultimately from Hebrew יְהוּדִית (Y'hudít, “woman from Judea, Jewess”). Doublet of Yehudit.

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