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say it: JOO-duhth
judith is a noun meaning "Jewish heroine in one of the books of the Apocrypha; she saved her people by decapitating the Assyrian general Holofernes". It is pronounced /ˈdʒudəθ/ — JOO-duhth. It carries 2 recorded senses.
Jewish heroine in one of the books of the Apocrypha; she saved her people by decapitating the Assyrian general Holofernes
Apocrypha
an Apocryphal book telling how Judith saved her people
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for judith come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.