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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

fairy-tale ending en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (countable, qualifier:literal, uncountable) The ending of a fairy tale.
  2. (countable, uncountable) An ideal and easy life free of hardship or struggle, similar to the lives characters live in the ending of a fairy-tale.
    • Many women have ideas about what we deserve—I mean, after all, we were promised our very own version of a handsome prince and a fairy-tale ending, or at least that's how it felt when we were little. We saw Snow White and the Seven[…] 2016 January 12, Wendy Newman, 121 First Dates: How to Succeed at Online Dating, Fall in Love, and Live Happily Ever After (Really!), Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 283:

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fairy-tale endings Number=Plur lexicographic
fairytale ending alternative lexicographic

Relateds

happily ever after