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cassiopeia
/ˌkʌsiəˈpiə/
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What does cassiopeia mean?
proper noun
- Proud wife of Cepheus and mother of Andromeda, queen of Ethiopia. When she boasted that her beauty was equal to that of the Nereids, she was punished by Poseidon.
- A circumpolar constellation of the northern sky representing Queen Cassiopeia from Greek myth, lying between the constellations Cepheus and Perseus.
- A female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek], of rare usage.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌkʌsiəˈpiə/
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“Yes, and the Bear. I wish I could see Cassiopeia.”
“Well, he has come into a fortune of eleven thousand pounds—uncle died in Canada, just after hearing that all his family, whom he was sending home, had gone to the bottom in the Cassiopeia; so Wildeve has come into everything, without in the least expecting it.”