Disney

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɪzni/

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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 70^th 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.

• Sidney, diynes, snidey

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

Disney

1. Disney

• disney-i
• Disney-film

Unadapted borrowing from English Disney.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdi.znej/, /ˈdi.zni/, /ˈdɪzni/[1]
• Rhymes: -iznej, -izni, -i
• Hyphenation: Dì‧sney

Disney f

1. Disney (Walt Disney Company)

   un film della Disney

   a Disney movie

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Disney (invariable)

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

Disney f (plural Disneys)

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

   Synonyms: esquecimento, branco

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.

Unadapted borrowing from English Disney.

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

Disney f (plural Disneyes)

1. Disney (Walt Disney Company)