Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Greek Mythology A daughter of Priam, the king of Troy, endowed with the gift of prophecy but fated by Apollo never to be believed.
- noun One that utters unheeded prophecies.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, a genus of ericaceous plants, of a single species, native of the cooler portions of Europe, Asia, and North America.
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- proper noun Greek mythology Daughter of King
Priam ofTroy and his queen Hecuba, who captured the eye ofApollo and was granted the ability to see the future. However, she was destined to never be believed. - proper noun A female
given name . - proper noun A person who makes predictions which are never believed but turn out to be true.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (Greek mythology) a prophetess in Troy during the Trojan War whose predictions were true but were never believed
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I also like the villain Cassandra from the last two seasons of Dr. Who, just a skein of skin stretched upon a framework.
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Oh, and Cassandra is perfectly right: All the best stories really do begin with once upon a time
Storytime Ulysses 2009
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 Cassandra is the only one of the three who could care less about life beyond the walls of our home.
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Being the Cassandra is no picnic, no matter what brave face I try to put on by joking about it.
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The camera stays focused on Wayne, as he cannot afford any time delay because his relationship with Cassandra is in severe trouble.
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 His sister, Cassandra, is the quiet one who only likes men.
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Billed as “distributed storage system for managing structured data while providing reliability at a massive scale,” Cassandra is basically fusing the database referencing model with the near infinite capacity of the global and clustered file systems.
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Cassandra is bewildered, in fact, when the judges in a courtroom ask her if she was a machine.
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Consider This: People will probably assume this name starts with a C and is a nickname for Cassandra.
5-Star Baby Name Advisor Bruce Lansky 2008
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Consider This: People will probably assume this name starts with a C and is a nickname for Cassandra.
5-Star Baby Name Advisor Bruce Lansky 2008
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