noun
Capulet
noun
1
A member of one side of a bitter, long-running feud between two families or factions, drawing on the Capulets in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (the other side being the Montagues).
"In the office, the two rival teams behaved like Capulets and Montagues."
How to Use Capulet
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishUsed to describe one side of a deep, often pointless family or group rivalry, referencing Romeo and Juliet.
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Word Forms
Capulets plural
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Etymology
From the surname of Juliet's family in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, itself adapted from the Italian Capuleti.