julia
/ˈd͡ʒu.ljə/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.12 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A female given name from Latin.
name
A French surname.
name
A programming language suited for numerical analysis and scientific computing.
Example Sentences
- "Salute Philologus & Iulia, Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the Saints which are with them."
- ""Julia!" when alone he would exclaim; "what a sweet sounding and romantic name: Julia! what music and magic in its sound! 'tis a name worthy only the fairest and purest of creation!"
- "“Why, I mean,” I replied, recoiling, “I mean—in short—that—in other words—I didn't know your name was Julia.”"
- ""Why did you name her Julia?" Amy asked, letting the orange ice cream melt down the backs of her hands. "Because it sounds dignified.""
- "In an order issued Tuesday evening in the ongoing lawsuit Orr v. Trump, Massachusetts District Judge Julia Kobick expanded the preliminary injunction she issued in April, which required the State Department to issue passports that match the plaintiffs’ gender identities."
- "And then came Julia, a general purpose programming language designed according to the requirements of scientific and technical computing, providing performance comparable to C/C++, and with an environment productive enough for prototyping like the high-level dynamic language of Python."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Iūlia
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈd͡ʒu.ljə/