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cinderella
/ˌsɪndɚˈɛlə/
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What does cinderella mean?
noun
- Alternative letter-case form of Cinderella.
- (figuratively) A mistreated and impoverished girl.
- Something rising unexpectedly from obscurity to success, as a Cinderella team.
More meanings (7)
noun
- Something neglected and denied resources, as a Cinderella service.
- (informal) A procedure or surgery to reshape the feet.
- A stamp or stamp-like label issued for purposes other than postal administration, not issued by a central government, or not listed in most general catalogues.
- (derogatory, rare) A woman employed to clean, especially to remove ash from stoves and fireplaces.
proper noun
- A popular fairy tale embodying a classic folk tale myth-element of unjust oppression and triumphant reward.
- The main character in this story, a mistreated and impoverished girl.
- (rare) A female given name originating as a coinage.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌsɪndɚˈɛlə/
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“Peter,” said Wendy excitedly, “that was Cinderella, and he found her, and they lived happily ever after.”
They made a wonderful big pumpkin out of the wheelbarrow, trimmed with yellow paper, and Cinderella rolled away in it, when the fairy godmother waved her wand.
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In America, especially, men have no settled antipathy to such stooping alliances; in fact, it rather flatters their vanity to play Prince Charming to Cinderella.
The world had always loved the notion of the poor man uppermost; it can be proved by every legend from Cinderella to Whittington, by every poem from the Magnificat to the Marseillaise.
All this they read with saucer eyes, and erect and primitive curiosity, and with unwearied gizzard, whose corrugations even yet need no sharpening, just as some little four-year-old bencher his two-cent gilt-covered edition of Cinderella,—without any improvement, that I can see, in the pronunciation, or accent, or emphasis, or any more skill in extracting or inserting the moral.