HOLOFERNES

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• HOLOFERNES (noun)
  The noun HOLOFERNES has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: HOLOFERNES used as a noun is very rare.

• HOLOFERNES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Apocrypha) the Assyrian general who was decapitated by the biblical heroine Judith

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

full general; general (a general officer of the highest rank)

Domain category:

Apocrypha (14 books of the Old Testament included in the Vulgate (except for II Esdras) but omitted in Jewish and Protestant versions of the Bible; eastern Christian churches (except the Coptic Church) accept all these books as canonical; the Russian Orthodox Church accepts these texts as divinely inspired but does not grant them the same status)