Sleeping Beauty

Definition: Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping Beauty

Noun

1. Fairy story: princess under an evil spell who could be awakened only by a prince's kiss.

2. A person who is sleeping soundly.

3. A potential takeover target that has not yet been put in play.

Specialty Definition: Sleeping Beauty

Domain	Definition
Literature	Sleeping Beauty From the French La Belle au Bois Dormante, by Charles Perrault (Contes du Temps). She is shut up by enchantment in a castle, where she sleeps a hundred years, during which time an impenetrable wood springs up around. Ultimately she is disenchanted by a young prince, who marries her. Epimenides, the Cretan poet, went to fetch a sheep, and after sleeping fifty-seven years continued his search, and was surprised to find when he got home that his younger brother was grown grey. (See Rip Van Winkle .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Specialty Definition: Sleeping Beauty

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Sleeping Beauty is a classic children's story, first written down during the 17th century by Charles Perrault.

The basic elements of the modern version of the story are:

At the christening of a baby princess, fairies offer gifts of beauty, good nature, intelligence, etc. However, a wicked fairy (or witch) places the princess under an enchantment, saying that, on reaching adulthood, she will prick her finger on a spindle and die.

A good fairy, though unable to reverse the spell, alters its effect so that the princess, instead of dying, will sleep until awakened by her true love's kiss. The witch's curse is fulfilled, and the princess and everyone in the castle goes to sleep.

Eventually, a prince arrives, and, hearing the story of the enchantment, enters the castle. In some versions, he has to overcome obstacles such as a thick forest or a dragon. He kisses the princess, everyone in the castle wakes, and they all live happily ever after.

The story has been brought to page, stage and screen in many different forms, most notably:

As a pantomime
As a ballet, with music by Tchaikovsky
As an animated film by Walt Disney

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sleeping Beauty."

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Crosswords: Sleeping Beauty

Specialty definitions using "Sleeping Beauty": Nursery Tales. (references)

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Modern Usage: Sleeping Beauty

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Wake up, Ruby Sleeping Beauty all you do is sleep it scares me (The Glass House; writing credit: Wesley Strick)
Movie/TV Titles	The Sleeping Beauty (1963) Sleeping Beauty (1959) The Sleeping Beauty (1955) Sleeping Beauty (1922) Cannon Movie Tales: Sleeping Beauty (1987)
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Commercial Usage: Sleeping Beauty

Domain	Title
Books	Beauty's Release: The Sequel to the Claiming of Sleeping Beauty and Beauty's Punishment (reference) Shaking the sleeping beauty : arousing the church to its mission (reference) Sleeping Beauty Novels (reference) La Bella Durmiente del Bosque / The Sleeping Beauty - Libro y Cassette (reference) The Princess Collection Friendship Box: Cinderella, the Little Mermaid, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Tchaikovsky - The Sleeping Beauty / Durante, Solymosi, Dowell, Royal Ballet (reference) Tchaikovsky - Sleeping Beauty / De Ligniere, Gouda, Cullberg Ballet (Mats Ek) (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
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Image Slideshow: Sleeping Beauty

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Photo Album: Sleeping Beauty

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The sleeping beauty no. 2. Credit: Library of Congress.		Portrait of Alicia Markova, Bluebird variations, "Sleeping Beauty". Credit: Library of Congress.
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Expression: Sleeping Beauty

Expression using "Sleeping Beauty": the sleeping beauty. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sleeping Beauty

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
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sleeping beauty picture	104	walt disney sleeping beauty	7
disney sleeping beauty	71	sleeping beauty doll	6
disneys sleeping beauty	52	sleeping beauty barbie	5
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sleeping beauty pic	17	sleeping beauty art	4
the sleeping beauty ballet	16	sleeping beauty character	4
sleeping beauty dvd	14	sleeping beauty poster	4
sleeping beauty costume	13	kingsdown sleeping beauty	3
sleeping beauty turquoise	12	tchaikovsky the sleeping beauty	3
anne rice sleeping beauty	10	sleeping beauty memorial photography in america	3
sleeping beauty story	10	sleeping beauty merchandise	2
sleeping beauty clipart	10	sleeping beauty gallery	2
sleeping beauty movie	10	sleeping beauty video	2
sleeping beauty clip art	9	wedding sleeping beauty	2
fairy tale sleeping beauty	7	house of sleeping beauty	2
sleeping beauty image	7
		house of sleeping beauty	2
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Modern Translation: Sleeping Beauty

Language		Translations for "Sleeping Beauty"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		спяща красавица. (various references)

Dutch		Dorenroosje (the Sleeping Beauty). (various references)

Esperanto		Dornorozeto (the Sleeping Beauty). (various references)

Finnish		prinsessa Ruusunen (the Sleeping Beauty). (various references)

German		Dornröschen (Märchen). (various references)

Hungarian		csipkerózsika. (various references)

Manx		Caillin y Saveen Liauyr. (various references)

Pig Latin		eepingslay eautybay

Spanish		la bella durmiente del bosque. (various references)

Swedish		törnrosa (the sleeping beauty). (various references)

Turkish		uyuyan güzel. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Sleeping Beauty

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-e-g-i-l-n-p-s-t-u-y"
	-5 letters: anglesite, antisleep, beleaping, butylenes, egyptians, galenites, gelatines, penalties, plebeians, pulsating, sapiently, subalpine, sublating, tangibles, tapelines, teaseling, teasingly.
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