Montague
proper nounattested in dialogue
- United Kingdom//ˈmɒntəɡjuː//
A surname from Old French, variant of Montagu.
proper noun
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A surname from Old French, variant of Montagu.
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A male given name.
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figurativeBy analogy with the Shakespearean play, a member or citizen of the family, party, or country of the husband in a Romeo and Juliet couple and/or of a group that is feuding with another, similar group identified as Capulet.
It goes without saying that she knew nothing whatever of the bad relations subsisting between her father and her sweetheart. She did not know her Romeo was a Montague still less that to him she was a Capulet.
Still, despite Marshall's impression of a kind of Montague-Capulet feud, George Catlett did succeed in marrying Laura Emily, the daughter of Dr. Jonathan Bradford, and his sister, Margaret, married Laura's brother, Thomas.
Romeo's mother was precisely what I had painted her — a Lady Montague of the severest, with coffee-coloured point-lace, a Cornelia one shade too stout for the mother of the Gracchi.
She playfully called herself a tragedienne, much like Juliet Capulet, and she thought of Timmy as her Romeo Montague.
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A place in the United States: A city in Siskiyou County, California.
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A place in the United States: A town in Franklin County, Massachusetts.
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A place in the United States: A city in Michigan.
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A place in the United States: A town in New York.
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A place in the United States: An unincorporated census-designated place, the county seat of Montague County, Texas.
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A township in Ontario.
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A community in Prince Edward Island.
Forms
- plural
- Montagues
Montague · A surname from Old French, variant of Montagu.
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