Sleeping Beauty
Cursed slumbering princess
Sleeping Beauty is a fairy tale about a princess cursed to sleep until awakened by a prince's kiss.
The story appears in versions by Perrault and the Brothers Grimm.
By extension, a sleeping beauty is someone or something dormant but potentially valuable: The company was a sleeping beauty waiting for the right investor.
The phrase also describes someone who sleeps deeply or excessively.
German folklorists, sibling scholars
- Briar RoseCurse-bound sleeping royal
- storybookBook of tales
- folktaleTraditional narrative passed down
- once upon a timeTraditional narrative opening
Charles Perrault · moral · Disney · Tchaikovsky · ballet · princess · castle · kingdom
Rotating rod for thread
- prickingPuncturing with something sharp
- christeningCeremony naming a child
- prophecyForetelling of future events
- doomUnavoidable grim fate
Maleficent · hex · spell · enchantment · bewitchment · fairy · godmother · vengeful
Monarch's daughter or heir
- AuroraName from Latin dawn
- princeRoyal family male
- kingMale crowned ruler
- queenMost powerful chess piece
throne · palace · crown · christening · court · kingdom · royal decree · heir
Magical romantic contact
- princeRoyal family male
- revivalReturn after decline
- rescueSave from harm
- happily ever afterTraditional story's final promise
wedding · reunion · restoration · rebirth · disenchantment · sunrise · new beginning · embrace
Return to consciousness
- dreamlessLacking sleep imagery
- comaUnwakeable unconsciousness
- suspendedHalted or hanging temporarily
- deathlikeResembling the deceased
repose · bedchamber · tower · glass coffin · unchanging · preserved · waiting · dormant
Brothers Grimm
German folklorists, sibling scholars
- Briar RoseCurse-bound sleeping royal
- storybookBook of tales
- folktaleTraditional narrative passed down
Charles Perrault · once upon a time · moral · Disney · Tchaikovsky · ballet · princess · castle · kingdom · forest
spindle
Rotating rod for thread
- prickingPuncturing with something sharp
- christeningCeremony naming a child
- prophecyForetelling of future events
Maleficent · doom · hex · spell · enchantment · bewitchment · fairy · godmother · vengeful · banishment
princess
Monarch's daughter or heir
queen · throne · palace · crown · christening · court · kingdom · royal decree · heir · noble
true love's kiss
Magical romantic contact
happily ever after · wedding · reunion · restoration · rebirth · disenchantment · sunrise · new beginning · embrace · destined
awakening
Return to consciousness
deathlike · repose · bedchamber · tower · glass coffin · unchanging · preserved · waiting · dormant · eternal rest
- DisneyWalt Disney, Mickey Mouse, Disney, Minnie Mouse, Goofy
- Fictional CharactersAlice, Oliver Twist, Hermione Granger, Harry Potter, Bilbo Baggins
- bedtime storiesGoodnight Moon, storybook, fairy tale, lullaby, storytime
- childhood loretooth fairy, Santa Claus, Easter Bunny, boogeyman, monster under bed
- Fairy Tale CharactersCinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White, Goldilocks, Rapunzel
- folk talesfable, fairy tale, folktale, folk tale, folktales
Sleeping BeautyMulan
Folklore's female conscript
warrior princess · Katniss Everdeen · Moana · Scheherazade · Xena
Sleeping BeautySnow White
Grimm's fairest maiden
Cinderella · Rapunzel · Little Red Riding Hood · the Beast · Rumpelstiltskin
sleep, beauty, beautiful, sleeping, slept, sleeper, beautify, sleepiness, sleepless