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Definition of: Judith
(j′dith; Fr. zhü·dēt′, Ger. y′dēt)
A feminine personal name. Also Lat. Ju·di·tha (j′di·tə). [<Hebrew, praise]
—Judith
A Jewish woman, heroine of a book in the Apocrypha of the same name, who rescued her countrymen by slaying the Assyrian general, Holofernes.
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