Disney

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English

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The Walt Disney Studios, the headquarters of The Walt Disney Company.

Etymology

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English surname of Norman origin, from Old French de (of, from) + Isigny (a place in Calvados). For the placename, see Isigny-sur-Mer. In modern use, it is also derived from the name of Walt Disney, whose surname has the aforementioned origin.

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Disney

  1. A surname from Old French.
  2. The Walt Disney Company, named after Walt Disney.
    Have you seen Disney's latest film?
  3. (informal) Any of the theme parks and vacation resorts operated by Walt Disney Parks and Resorts.
    We went to Disney with the kids this summer.
    • 1990, Bill Berkowitz with Bill Sample (interviewee), Local Heroes, Lexington Books, →ISBN, 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, 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, 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.
  4. A town in Mayes County, Oklahoma, United States, named after Wesley E. Disney.

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Hungarian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈdizni], [ˈdɪzni]
  • Hyphenation: Dis‧ney
  • Rhymes: -ni

Proper noun

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Disney

  1. Disney

Declension

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Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative Disney Disney-k
accusative Disney-t Disney-ket
dative Disney-nek Disney-knek
instrumental Disney-vel Disney-kkel
causal-final Disney-ért Disney-kért
translative Disney-vé Disney-kké
terminative Disney-ig Disney-kig
essive-formal Disney-ként Disney-kként
essive-modal
inessive Disney-ben Disney-kben
superessive Disney-n Disney-ken
adessive Disney-nél Disney-knél
illative Disney-be Disney-kbe
sublative Disney-re Disney-kre
allative Disney-hez Disney-khez
elative Disney-ből Disney-kből
delative Disney-ről Disney-kről
ablative Disney-től Disney-ktől
non-attributive
possessive - singular
Disney-é Disney-ké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
Disney-éi Disney-kéi
Possessive forms of Disney
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. Disney-m Disney-jeim(or Disney-im)
2nd person sing. Disney-d Disney-jeid(or Disney-id)
3rd person sing. Disney-je Disney-jei(or Disney-i)
1st person plural Disney-nk Disney-jeink(or Disney-ink)
2nd person plural Disney-tek Disney-jeitek(or Disney-itek)
3rd person plural Disney-jük Disney-jeik(or Disney-ik)

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Italian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English Disney.

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Proper noun

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Disney f

  1. Disney (Walt Disney Company)
    un film della Disney
    a Disney movie

References

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  1. ^ Disney, Walt in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English Disney.

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Disney m pers (related adjective disnejowski)

  1. Walt Disney (American animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneur)
  2. (metonymically) Disney (The Walt Disney Company, named after Walt Disney)

Declension

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nouns

References

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  1. ^ Adam Wolański (29.07.2021) Poradnia Językowa PWN [Language clinic PWN]‎[1], Polish Scientific Publishers PWN

Further reading

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  • Disney in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Disney in PWN's encyclopedia

Portuguese

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Etymology

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From English Disney.

Pronunciation

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  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒiz.nej/ [ˈd͡ʒiz.neɪ̯], /ˈd͡ʒiz.ni/, /ˈdɪsni/

Adjective

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Disney (invariable)

  1. (Brazil, slang, neologism) easy, comfortable, or favorable

Noun

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Disney f (plural Disneys)

  1. (Brazil, slang, neologism) the state of forgetting something; blackout; oblivion
    Synonyms: esquecimento, branco

Proper noun

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Disney f

  1. Disney (Walt Disney Company)
    um filme da Disney
    a Disney movie
  2. any of the Walt Disney theme parks
    Estou indo para a Disney nas férias.
    I'm going to Disney on vacation.

Spanish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English Disney.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈdisnei/ [ˈd̪iz.nei̯]
  • IPA(key): /ˈdisni/ [ˈd̪iz.ni]
  • IPA(key): /ˈdɪsni/ [ˈd̪ɪz.ni]
    • Rhymes: -i
  • Syllabification: Dis‧ney

Noun

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Disney f (plural Disneyes)

  1. Disney (Walt Disney Company)