Definitions of holofernes [ˌhɒl əˈfɜr niz, ˌhoʊ lə-]

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1. (n.) Holofernes
(in the Book of Judith) a general of Nebuchadnezzar killed by Judith.

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1. (noun) Holofernes
(Apocrypha) the Assyrian general who was decapitated by the biblical heroine Judith

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1. holofernes
the Assyrian general whom the Jewish Judith, entering his camp as it invested her native place, slew with her own hand, and bore his head as a trophy back to the town.

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