1. Jewish heroine in one of the books of the Apocrypha; she saved her people by decapitating the Assyrian general Holofernes;
2. an Apocryphal book telling how Judith saved her people; [syn: Judith, Book of Judith]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Judith
n 1: Jewish heroine in one of the books of the Apocrypha; she
saved her people by decapitating the Assyrian general
Holofernes
2: an Apocryphal book telling how Judith saved her people [syn:
Judith, Book of Judith]