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disney | universal |

As a proper noun disney

is of norman origin.

As an adjective universal is

of or pertaining to the universe.

As a noun universal is

(philosophy) a characteristic or property that particular things have in common.

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

    Anagrams

    * *

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    universal

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to the universe.
  • Common to all members of a group or class.
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  • Common to all society; world-wide
    • She achieved universal fame.
  • Cosmic; unlimited; vast; infinite
  • Useful for many purposes, e.g., universal wrench .

    • Derived terms

    * universalise, universalize * universal quantifier

    Related terms

    * universe * university

    Antonyms

    * nonuniversal

    See also

    * (wikipedia "universal") * general * global

    External links

    * *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (philosophy) A characteristic or property that particular things have in common.
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  • * {{quote-book, year=1970, title=Speech acts, author=John R. Searle
    • , passage=We might also distinguish those expressions which are used to refer to individuals or particulars from those which are used to refer to what philosophers have called universals : e.g., to distinguish such expressions as "Everest" and "this chair" from "the number three", "the color red" and "drunkenness". citation

    See also

    * particular

    External links

    * * The Medieval Problem of Universals - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ----