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sleeping beauty is a noun meaning "fairy story: princess under an evil spell who could be awakened only by a prince's kiss". It carries 3 recorded senses.
fairy story: princess under an evil spell who could be awakened only by a prince's kiss
a person who is sleeping soundly
a potential takeover target that has not yet been put in play
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sleeping beauty come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.