sleeping beauty
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.34 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
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A fairy tale originally titled La Belle au bois dormant by Charles Perrault.
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The main character in this story, who is in unbroken slumber under a magical spell, awaiting the kiss of a prince.
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noun
Alternative letter-case form of sleeping beauty (Oxalis corniculata).
noun
A creeping woodsorrel (Oxalis corniculata) a somewhat delicate-appearing, low-growing herbaceous plant, found in warm-temperate and subtropical climates worldwide.
Example Sentences
- "How far have we come since the days of our favorite childhood fairy tales if women still need a rescuer like the Cinderellas, Sleeping Beauties, and other helpless maidens of the past?"
- "Womanly duties, as Joan thought of them, were fine for girls who imagined themselves as Cinderellas or Sleeping Beauties, good girls rewarded for menial housework and, in the case of Sleeping Beauty, a passivity so profound it was deaf, dumb, blind, and comatose."
- "They emote and are long-winded about it; they express affection and passion and have sex and revel in it; they are cruel and vengeful; they whine and complain, gossip, browbeat, and nag—in short, everything that we have always suspected is behind the refractive exteriors of the more famous Cinderellas and Sleeping Beauties. […] It features a storyteller who, tired of telling the same old Cinderellas and Sleeping Beauties, meets up with some fairies in a wood as he is searching for new material."
- "Wake up Sleeping Beauty, school starts in 10 minutes."
Etymology
In the genetics sense, so called because the transposon was brought back to activity from a long evolutionary sleep.
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Synonyms
procumbent yellow sorrel