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say it: kuh-SAN-druh
cassandra is a noun meaning "(Greek mythology) a prophetess in Troy during the Trojan War whose predictions were true but were never believed". It is pronounced /kəˈsændɹə/ — kuh-SAN-druh. It carries one recorded sense.
(Greek mythology) a prophetess in Troy during the Trojan War whose predictions were true but were never believed
Greek mythology
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cassandra come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.