julia

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Definition of julia in English English dictionary

A female given name

{i} female first name

feminine form of the Roman family name Julius

born 39 BC died AD 14, Rhegium Only child of Augustus. She wed Marcellus, who died in 23 BC, then Agrippa (21), Augustus's chief lieutenant. Their two eldest sons were adopted by Augustus (17) and became his heirs. When Agrippa died (12 BC), Augustus's second wife persuaded him to favour her sons (his stepsons), Tiberius and Drusus, as heirs. Augustus forced Tiberius to divorce his wife and marry Julia (11 BC). The unhappy Julia became promiscuous, and Tiberius went into self-imposed exile. When Augustus discovered Julia's behaviour, he banished her to an island off Campania (2 BC), then to Rhegium. On becoming emperor, Tiberius withheld her allowance, and she starved to death. Saena Julia Julia Elizabeth Wells Cameron Julia Margaret Child Julia Julia McWilliams Howe Julia Ward Julia Ward Kristeva Julia Morgan Julia Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner

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Julia Child

orig. Julia McWilliams born Aug. 15, 1912 , Pasadena, Calif., U.S. died Aug. 13, 2004, Santa Barbara U.S. cooking expert and television personality. She lived in Paris after her marriage in 1945, studying at the Cordon Bleu and with a master chef. After cowriting the best-seller Mastering the Art of French Cooking (1961) and moving to Boston, she created the popular PBS cooking series The French Chef (1963-73), and later other cooking shows. Through her programs and books, she helped educate the U.S. public about traditional French cuisine and sparked interest in the culinary arts

Julia Kristeva

born June 24, 1941, Sliven, Bulg. Bulgarian-born French psychoanalyst, critic, and educator. Professor of linguistics at the University of Paris VII, she is known for her writings in structuralist linguistics (see structuralism), psychoanalysis, semiotics, and feminism. She was a protégé of Roland Barthes, and she synthesized elements from such thinkers as Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, and Mikhail Bakhtin in creating her own theories. Her novels include The Samurai (1990) and The Old Man and the Wolves (1991)

Julia Margaret Cameron

born June 11, 1815, Calcutta, India died Jan. 26, 1879, Kalutara, Ceylon British portrait photographer. In 1864, after receiving a camera as a gift, she set up a studio and darkroom and began taking portraits. Her sitters were friends such as Alfred Tennyson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Charles Darwin. Her sensitive portraits of women, such as that of Ellen Terry, are especially noteworthy. Like many Victorian photographers, she made allegorical photographs in imitation of the Pre-Raphaelite paintings of the day. Her technical ability was criticized, but she was more interested in spiritual depth than in technical perfection; her portraits are considered exceptionally fine

Julia Morgan

born Jan. 20, 1872, San Francisco, Calif., U.S. died Feb. 2, 1957, San Francisco U.S. architect. She received an engineering degree from the University of California at Berkeley. The first female architecture student at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1898), she later became California's first licensed woman architect. Morgan then commenced 40 years of architectural work that resulted in some 800 buildings, most of them in California, particularly in San Francisco. She opened her own architectural office in 1904, and the devastation of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 provided her with the opportunity to design hundreds of homes and many churches, office buildings, and educational buildings in the Bay area. She is best remembered for designing William Randolph Hearst's private castle at San Simeon (1919-38)

Julia Ward Howe

orig. Julia Ward born May 27, 1819, New York, N.Y., U.S. died Oct. 17, 1910, Newport, R.I. U.S. abolitionist and social reformer. Born to a well-to-do family, she was educated privately. In 1843 she married educator Samuel Gridley Howe and took up residence in Boston. For a while she and her husband published the Commonwealth, an abolitionist newspaper. During a visit to an army camp near Washington, D.C., in 1861, she wrote a poem, "Battle Hymn of the Republic," to be set to an old folk tune also used for "John Brown's Body." Published in February 1862 in The Atlantic Monthly, it became the semiofficial Civil War song of the Union Army, and Howe became famous. After the war she involved herself in the woman suffrage movement, helping to found and serving as president of the New England Woman Suffrage Association (1868-77, 1893-1910). She also wrote travel books, biography, drama, verse, and children's songs and edited Woman's Journal (1870-90). In 1908 she became the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters

Hyphenation

Jul·ia

Turkish pronunciation

culyı

Pronunciation

/ˈʤo͞olyə/ /ˈʤuːljə/

Etymology

() Latin Iūlia, feminine form of the Roman gens name Iūlius.