Definitions for cassandra
kəˈsæn drəcas·san·dra

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Cassandranoun

   (Greek mythology) a prophetess in Troy during the Trojan War whose predictions were true but were never believed

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Cassandranoun

   Daughter of King Priam of Troy and his queen Hecuba, who captured the eye of Apollo and was granted the ability to see the future. However, she was destined to never be believed.

2. Cassandranoun

   A person who makes predictions which are never believed but turn out to be true.

3. Cassandranoun

   A prophetess who was daughter of King Priam of Troy and his queen Hecuba. She captured the eye of Apollo and was granted the ability to see the future; however, she was destined never to be believed.

   And so when Cassandra foretold the evils that were to come upon Troy, even her own people would not credit her words.

4. Cassandranoun

   A female given name from Ancient Greek.

   But succeeding ages have recalled prophane names, so as now Diana, Cassandra, Hyppolytus, Venus, Lais, names of unhappy disaster are as rife, as ever they were in paganism.

5. Etymology: Κασσάνδρα.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Cassandra

   Cassandra or Kassandra (; Ancient Greek: Κασσάνδρα, pronounced [kas:ándra], also Κασάνδρα, and sometimes referred to as Alexandra) in Greek mythology was a Trojan priestess dedicated to the god Apollo and fated by him to utter true prophecies but never to be believed. In modern usage her name is employed as a rhetorical device to indicate a person whose accurate prophecies, generally of impending disaster, are not believed. Cassandra was a daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy. Her elder brother was Hector, the hero of the Greek-Trojan war. The older and most common versions of the myth state that she was admired by the god Apollo, who sought to win her love by means of the gift of seeing the future. According to Aeschylus, she promised him her favours, but after receiving the gift, she went back on her word. As the enraged Apollo could not revoke a divine power, he added to it the curse that nobody would believe her prophecies. In other sources, such as Hyginus and Pseudo-Apollodorus, Cassandra broke no promise to Apollo but rather the power of foresight was given to her as an enticement to enter into a romantic engagement, the curse being added only when it failed to produce the result desired by the god. Later versions on the contrary describe her falling asleep in a temple, where snakes licked (or whispered into) her ears which enabled her to hear the future.

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1. cassandra

   "Cassandra" is a term that originated from Greek mythology and is used in different contexts today. 1) Mythology: In Greek mythology, Cassandra was a daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy, gifted with the ability of prophecy by Apollo. However, when she rejected his advances, he cursed her so that no one would believe her prophecies. 2) Software: In the world of technology, Apache Cassandra is a highly scalable, high-performance distributed database used to handle large amounts of data across many commodity servers, providing high availability with no single point of failure. 3) Name: Cassandra is also a popular female name in many cultures and languages. 4) Literary Device: In literature, a "Cassandra" is a term used to describe a character whose valid warnings or prophecies are disregarded or disbelieved by others. This is an allusion to the mythological Cassandra's curse. Hence, the definition of "Cassandra" may vary depending on the context it's used in.

WikidataRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Cassandra

   In Greek mythology, Cassandra was the daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy. Her beauty caused Apollo to grant her the gift of prophecy. In an alternative version, she spent a night at Apollo's temple, at which time the temple snakes licked her ears clean so that she was able to hear the future. When Cassandra refused Apollo's attempted seduction, he placed a curse on her so that her predictions and those of all her descendants would not be believed. She is a figure both of the epic tradition and of tragedy.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Cassandra

   kas-an′dra, n. a daughter of Priam, king of Troy, beloved by Apollo, who gave her the gift of prophecy, but not of being believed—hence any one who takes gloomy views of the political or social future.

The Nuttall EncyclopediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Cassandra

   a beautiful Trojan princess, daughter of Priam and Hecuba, whom Apollo endowed with the gift of prophecy, but, as she had rejected his suit, doomed to utter prophecies which no one would believe, as happened with her warnings of the fate and the fall of Troy, which were treated by her countrymen as the ravings of a lunatic; her name is applied to any one who entertains gloomy forebodings.

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1. cassandra

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MythologyRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Cassandra

   (Cassan′dra), a daughter of Priam and Hecuba, who was granted by Apollo the power of seeing into futurity, but having offended that god he prevented people from believing her predictions.

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1. CASSANDRA

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Cassandra is ranked #90113 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Cassandra surname appeared 205 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Cassandra.
   
   80.9% or 166 total occurrences were White.
   8.7% or 18 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   6.3% or 13 total occurrences were Black.

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1. • Greek Mythology
   • Prophetess

How to pronounce cassandra?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of cassandra in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of cassandra in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of cassandra in a Sentence

1. Julia Tinetti:

   We had an event that we went to that we dressed alike -- our socks matched, our sneakers matched, our sunglasses matched our shorts were black -- she made us tank tops that said that she was the big sister and I was Cassandra Madison, we kind of just went with it like as a joke. It was not serious at all.

2. Cassandra King Conroy:

   The Water is wide and Cassandra King Conroy has now passed over.

3. Wayne's World:

   Wayne Tell me, when the first show is over, will you still love me when I'm an incredibly humungoid giant star Cassandra Yeah. Wayne Will you still love me when I'm in my hanging-out-with-Ravi-Shankar phase Cassandra Yeah. Wayne Will you still love me when I'm in my carbohydrate, sequined-jumpsuit, young-girls-in-white-cotton-panties, waking-up-in-a-pool-of-your-own-vomit, bloated-purple-dead-on-a-toilet phase Cassandra Yeah. Wayne Okay, party. Bonus.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=cassandra
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Cassandra
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=cassandra
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=cassandra
7. ^ The Nuttall Encyclopedia
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12342/pg12342-images.html#Cassandra
8. ^ Mythology
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/42474/pg42474-images.html#:~:text=cassandra
9. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html