Definitions for disney
ˈdɪz nidis·ney

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1. Disney, Walt Disney, Walter Elias Disneynoun

   United States film maker who pioneered animated cartoons and created such characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck; founded Disneyland (1901-1966)

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1. Disneynoun

   of Norman origin.

2. Disneynoun

   The The Walt Disney Company

3. Disneynoun

   Any of the theme parks and vacation resorts operated by Walt Disney Parks and Resorts.

4. Etymology: * From de + Isigny.

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1. Disney

   The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney (), is an American multinational, mass media and entertainment conglomerate that is headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California. Disney was founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt and Roy O. Disney as Disney Brothers Studio; it also operated under the names Walt Disney Studio and Walt Disney Productions before changing its name to The Walt Disney Company in 1986. Early in its existence, the company established itself as a leader in the animation industry, with the creation of the widely popular character Mickey Mouse, who first appeared in Steamboat Willie, which used synchronized sound, to become the first post-produced sound cartoon. The character would go on to become the company's mascot. After becoming a major success by the early 1940s, the company diversified into live-action films, television, and theme parks in the 1950s. Following Walt Disney's death in 1966, the company's profits, especially in the animation division, began to decline. Once Disney's shareholders voted Michael Eisner as the head of the company in 1984, it became overwhelmingly successful during a period called the Disney Renaissance. In 2005, under new CEO Bob Iger, the company started to expand and acquire other corporations. Bob Chapek became the head of Disney in 2020 after Iger's retirement. Chapek was ousted in 2022 and Iger was reinstated as CEO. Since the 1980s, Disney has created and acquired corporate divisions to market more-mature content than is typically associated with its family-oriented brands. The company is known for its film-studio division Walt Disney Studios, which includes Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, 20th Century Studios, 20th Century Animation, and Searchlight Pictures. Disney's other main business units include divisions in television, broadcasting, streaming media, theme park resorts, consumer products, publishing, and international operations. Through these divisions, Disney owns and operates the ABC broadcast network; cable television networks such as Disney Channel, ESPN, Freeform, FX, and National Geographic; publishing, merchandising, music, and theater divisions; direct-to-consumer streaming services such as Disney+, Star+, ESPN+, Hulu, and Hotstar; and Disney Parks, Experiences and Products, which includes several theme parks, resort hotels, and cruise lines around the world. Disney is one of the biggest and best-known companies in the world, and has been ranked number 53 on the 2022 Fortune 500 list of biggest companies in the United States by revenue. Since its founding, the company has won 135 Academy Awards, 26 of which have been awarded to Walt. The company has been said to have produced some of the greatest films of all time, as well as revolutionizing the theme park industry. Disney has been criticized for supposed plagiarism, depicting racial stereotypes in the past, and both including and lacking LGBT-related elements in its films. The company, which has been public since 1940, trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) with ticker symbol DIS and has been a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average since 1991. In August 2020, just under two-thirds of the stock was owned by large financial institutions.

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1. disney

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1. DISNEY

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Disney is ranked #9006 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Disney surname appeared 3,631 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Disney.
   
   91.8% or 3,334 total occurrences were White.
   2.5% or 92 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   2.3% or 85 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   2.2% or 81 total occurrences were Black.
   0.5% or 20 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   0.5% or 19 total occurrences were Asian.

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Anagrams for disney »

1. diynes

2. Sidney

How to pronounce disney?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of disney in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of disney in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of disney in a Sentence

1. Jeff Gillette:

   [Disney] is vulnerable, to me, they're such a big presence and such a big part of culture and symbolic of so many things. It's hard not to f**k with them.

2. Joyce Bulifant:

   I was recording a song for ‘The Happiest Millionaire’ when he came down from his office, he put his arm around me and said, ‘I’m going to walk you over to the studio.’ I said, ‘Oh Mr. Disney, that’s so nice!’ I couldn’t believe the special attention. He said, ‘And young lady, I have big plans for you!’ And then he died. It wasn’t very nice of him at all! I only found out now, and even his wife didn’t know, that Disney was working on a series where Lesley Ann Warren and I would be the guides at Disneyland and our boyfriends would be Tommy Steele and John Davison. Wouldn’t that have been fun? But there you go. That’s life. That’s show business.

3. Ron DeSantis:

   Disney has alienated a lot of people now, and so the political influence they're used to wielding, I think has dissipated. And so the question is, why would you want to have special privileges in the law at all ? And I don't think that that we should.

4. Kim Kyung-Hoon:

   It was very hectic at the time and it was only afterwards on my laptop I saw ... the girls were in diapers, the mother was wearing a T-shirt with characters from Disney's 'Frozen' film. That was one of my daughter's favorite films when she was younger.

5. Bernie McTernan:

   There is a good chance Disney could better monetize' Mulan' with Premier Access relative to the box office, if there were any questions prior, it shows Disney is all-in on streaming.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=disney
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Disney
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney
4. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html