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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

卡珊德拉

Pronunciation / Transliteration: kǎ shān dé lā

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Cassandra/kəˈsændrə/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"他发出的警告没有人在意,就像一个现代的卡珊德拉。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A person who is prophesying doom or disaster, but whose warnings are disregarded.

    "Environmental scientists often feel like modern Cassandras when their climate warnings go unheeded."
  2. 2

    In technical architecture and databases, a reference to Apache Cassandra, a decentralized distributed NoSQL database management system.

    "The engineering team chose Cassandra to handle the massive influx of real-time transactional data."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Ancient Greek Kassándrā, meaning 'shining among men' or 'excelling mankind'. In Greek mythology, Cassandra was a daughter of King Priam of Troy who was cursed by Apollo never to be believed, despite always prophesying the truth. Over time, her name evolved into an eponym in English to describe someone whose accurate prophecies of impending doom are universally disregarded.

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