Disney Definition
Disney
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English
The Walt Disney Studios, the headquarters of The Walt Disney Company.Etymology
- From Old French de (“of, from”) + Isigny (a place in Calvados).
- In modern use, it is also derived from the name of a well-known person called Walt Disney.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA: /ˈdɪzni/, X-SAMPA: /"dIzni/
Proper noun
Disney
- A surname of Norman origin.
- The The Walt Disney Company
- Any of the theme parks and vacation resorts operated by Walt Disney Parks and Resorts.
- 1990, Bill Sample (interviewee), Bill Berkowitz (author), Local Heroes, Lexington Books, ISBN 0669158305, page 261:
- And they included children down the seashore, they included going to the mountains; our first Disney child was not until 1978, no, ’77. […] I mean, when you say to somebody, “I’m going to give you a trip to Disney,” or “I’m going to buy you a Cabbage Patch doll,” and we’re doing this for you for absolutely nothing, that’s a reward in itself.
- 2008, Doug Stumpf, Confessions of a Wall Street Shoeshine Boy, HarperCollins, ISBN 0060889543, page 155:
- if they found any phone number from the U.S., anything, they’d deport us right away because we came here on excursion with a whole bunch of people that was going to visit Disney. That’s what everybody usually do: They say, We going to visit Disney, and we going to stay there for a week, and then we going to go back, but they end up staying.
- 2008, Flay Scott, The Inheritance, page 3:
- Angela asked if we could treat ourselves to a few days at Disney. […] The week included a couple of days in Disney, Dad’s 70th birthday and then the long trip home.
- 2009, Cleo Stinyard III, Sex, Love, & Consequences, ISBN 1440497664, page 213:
- I had decided to take them, my niece, and three nephews to Disney in Orlando, FL. I was going to try and make history. I was going to make an attempt at escorting more than four Dredd kids to Disney at once and live to tell about it.
- 1990, Bill Sample (interviewee), Bill Berkowitz (author), Local Heroes, Lexington Books, ISBN 0669158305, page 261:
Derived terms
- Disneyan
- Disneyana
- Disneyesque
- disneyfy
- Disneyland
- Disneyworld
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