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A mid-month day in the Roman calendar, 15th in March, May, July, October and 13th in other months
  • noun
  • /aɪdz/
  • Literature
: ides
  • When Julius Caesar was stabbed 23 times on the Ides of March, at least one of the daggers is supposed to have gone into his groin.
  • Ides of March

We have on Wednesday the Ides of March coming up.

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Examples

  • On the day before the Ides of March, Lepidus invited Caesar and Decimus to his home for dinner and drinks.

  • Foster's dramatic skills are such that the BBC radio broadcasts large segments of his annual Ides of March tour in honor of the death of Caesar.

    Academic text (1994)

  • We have on Wednesday the Ides of March coming up.

    Meet Kevin

  • That night we went to the party, the Ides of March party.

    The House of Yes (1997)

  • And tomorrow... the Ides of March, a day to be remembered...

    Cleopatra (1963)

  • Marty and I had just turned 14, and we went to an Ides of March party.

    The House of Yes (1997)

  • I think of Cassandra warning Caesar about the Ides of March.

    Blog text (17)

  • When the daggers flashed on the Ides of March, he looked very surprised.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • They gathered at the Senate on the morning of the Ides with daggers under their togas, daggers on the belts of their tunic.

    Stanford

  • On the ides of March, Julius Caesar was warned to beware of the conspirators.

Surface Forms

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Etymology

Ides comes from the old Latin word idus, meaning 'middle of the month'. In the Roman calendar it named the middle day of each month, which is why the Ides of March (when Julius Caesar was killed) is so famous.