Disney

English

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

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɪzni/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

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.

Derived terms

• Dickney
• Disney adult
• Disneyan
• Disneyana
• Disneybound
• Disneybounder
• Disneybounding
• Disneyesque
• Disneyfication
• Disneyfy
• Disneyish
• Disneyland
• Disney parent
• Disneyphile
• Disneyphilia
• Disneyphobe
• Disneyphobia
• Disney point
• Disney rash
• Disneyverse
• Disneyworld, Disney World

 

Translations

surname

• Amharic: ዲስኒ (disni)
• Arabic: دِيزْنِي (dīznī)
• Bengali: ডিজনি (ḍijoni)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 迪斯尼 (zh) (Dísīní)

• Esperanto: Diznej
• Greek: Ντίσνεϋ (el) (Ntísneÿ)
• Hebrew: דיסני (Dysny)
• Hindi: डिज़्नी (ḍiznī)
• Italian: Disney
• Japanese: ディズニー (Dizunī)
• Korean: 디즈니 (Dijeuni)
• Marathi: डिज्नी (ḍijnī)
• Persian: دیزنی (dizni)
• Polish: Disney (pl) m or f
• Portuguese: Disney m or f
• Russian: Ди́сней (ru) (Dísnej)
• Tamil: டிஸ்னி (ṭisṉi)
• Telugu: డిస్నీ (ḍisnī)
• Thai: ดิสนีย์ (dís-nîi)
• Urdu: ڈزنی (ḍiznī)
• Vietnamese: Đi-xnây

Walt Disney Company

• Arabic: شَرِكَة وَالْت دِيزْنِي f (šarika(t) wālt dīznī)
• Bulgarian: Уолт Дисни Къмпани (Uolt Disni Kǎmpani)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 迪士尼 (zh) (Díshìní), 迪斯尼 (zh) (Dísīní)

• Hebrew: חברת וולט דיסני
• Hindi: वॉल्ट डिज़्नी कंपनी (vŏlṭ ḍiznī kampnī), डिज़्नी m (ḍiznī)
• Italian: Disney f
• Japanese: ウォルト・ディズニー・カンパニー (Woruto Dizunī kanpanī)
• Marathi: वॉल्ट डिज्नी कंपनी f (vŏlṭa ḍijnī kampnī)
• Polish: Disney (pl) m
• Portuguese: Disney f
• Russian: Компа́ния Уо́лт Ди́сней f (Kompánija Uólt Dísnej), Уо́лт Ди́сней Ка́мпани (Uólt Dísnej Kámpani), Ди́сней (ru) (Dísnej)
• Tamil: டிஸ்னி (ṭisṉi)
• Urdu: والٹ ڈزنِی کمپنی f (Vālṭ ḍiznī kampanī)

Disney theme park

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 迪士尼 (zh) (Díshìní), 迪斯尼 (zh) (Dísīní), 迪士尼乐园 (zh) (Díshìní lèyuán)

• Finnish: Disneyland
• Hindi: डिज़्नी m (ḍiznī)
• Italian: Disneyland f
• Polish: Disneyland (pl) m
• Portuguese: Disney f

Anagrams

• Sidney, diynes, snidey

Hungarian

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Disney

1. Disney

Declension

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)

Derived terms

• disney-i
• Disney-film

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Disney.

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Disney f

1. Disney (Walt Disney Company)

   un film della Disney

   a Disney movie

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Disney.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdis.nɛj/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -isnɛj
• Syllabification: Dis‧ney

Proper noun

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

Declension of Disney

	singular
nominative	Disney
genitive	Disneya
dative	Disneyowi
accusative	Disneya
instrumental	Disneyem
locative	Disneyu
vocative	Disneyu

Related terms

nouns

• Disneyland

 

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Etymology

From English Disney.

Pronunciation

 

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

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒiz.nej/ [ˈd͡ʒiz.neɪ̯], /ˈd͡ʒiz.ni/, /ˈdɪsni/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒiʒ.nej/ [ˈd͡ʒiʒ.neɪ̯], /ˈd͡ʒiʒ.ni/, /ˈdɪʃni/

Adjective

Disney (invariable)

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

Noun

Disney f (plural Disneys)

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

   Synonyms: esquecimento, branco

Proper noun

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

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Disney.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

Disney f (plural Disneyes)

1. Disney (Walt Disney Company)