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Cinderella vs Disney - What's the difference?

cinderella | disney |

As a noun cinderella

is .

As a proper noun disney is

of norman origin.

cinderella

English

Proper noun

(en 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. At a royal ball she meets a handsome prince who later identifies her with a dropped article, most commonly a slipper, and removes her from her poverty.
  • (rare)

    • Derived terms

    * Cinderellaesque * Cinderella story

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (by analogy) A mistreated and impoverished girl.
  • (attributive) Rising unexpectedly from obscurity to success, as a Cinderella team.
  • (attributive) Neglected and denied resources, as a Cinderella service.
  • (philately) 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.
  • (rare, disparaging) A woman employed to clean, especially to remove ash from stoves and fireplaces.

    • References

    * L. N. and M. Williams, Cinderella Stamps , London, Heinemann, 1970

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    disney

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • of Norman origin.
  • Any of the theme parks and vacation resorts operated by .
  • * 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.

    Derived terms

    * Disneyan * Disneyana * Disneyesque * disneyfy * Disneyland * Disneyworld

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