say it: sin-dur-EL-uh
cinderella is a noun meaning "a woman whose merits were not been recognized but who then achieves sudden success and recognition". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a woman whose merits were not been recognized but who then achieves sudden success and recognition
a fictional young girl who is saved from her stepmother and stepsisters by her fairy godmother and a handsome prince
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 cinderella 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.