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beauty

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English

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishbewty,bewte,beaute,bealte, fromAnglo-Norman andOld Frenchbeauté (early Old French spellingbiauté), fromVulgar Latin*bellitātem(“beauty”), fromLatinbellus(“beautiful, fair”); seebeau. In this sense, mostly displaced native Old Englishfæġernes, whence Modern Englishfairness.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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beauty (countable anduncountable,pluralbeauties)

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being (especiallyvisually)attractive,pleasing,fine or good-looking;comeliness.
  3. Someone who isbeautiful.
    Brigitte Bardot was a renownedbeauty.
    • 2004 April 13, Nick Paton Walsh, “Ample Alyona shakes up Russian pageant”, inThe Guardian‎[1]:
      The website calls a vote for Alyona a vote against "beauties who do not look natural and who cannot be distinguished from each other" and rails against the "imposed standards" of 90-60-90 vital statistics, and "cigarettes with out nicotine and coffee without caffeine".
  4. (in theplural) Those aspects or elements that make someone or something beautiful.
    • 1769,Firishta, translated byAlexander Dow,Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page iii:
      There the roſy-finger'd Spring, by the liquid mirror of a cryſtalline pool, was attiring her fair daughters in ſeven-fold ornaments, while the love-whiſpering breezes ſtole kiſſes as they paſſed, and fanned their glowingbeauties.
  5. Something that is particularlygood orpleasing.
    What a goal! That was a realbeauty!
  6. Anexcellent oregregiousexample of something.
    He got into a fight and ended up with two black eyes – two realbeauties!
  7. (with the definite article) Theexcellence orgenius of a scheme or decision.
    Thebeauty of the deal is it costs nothing!
  8. (particle physics, obsolete) Abeauty quark (now calledbottom quark).
  9. Beautytreatment;cosmetology.
    a hair andbeauty salon
    • 2013, Bethany Rooney, Mary Lou Belli,Directors Tell the Story, page184:
      When thebeauty team departs the set, the AD will say, “Let’s goon a bell.” A bell sounds throughout the stage, and[…]
  10. (obsolete) Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion.
    • 1653,Jeremy Taylor, “Twenty-five Sermons Preached at Golden Grove; Being for the Winter Half-year, […]: Sermon XVIII.[The Marriage Ring; or, The Mysteriousness and Duties of Marriage.] Part II.”, inReginald Heber, editor,The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, D.D. […], volume V, London: Ogle, Duncan, and Co. […]; and Richard Priestley, […], published1822,→OCLC,page277:
      Menander in the comedy brings in a man turning his wife from his house, because she stained her hair yellow, which was then thebeauty.
  11. (archaic, in theplural) Beautiful passages or extracts ofpoetry.

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Collocations

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Collocations
  • Adjectives often applied to "beauty": natural, great, real, physical, exotic, inner, spiritual, strange, divine, visual, heavenly, intellectual, facial, attractive, sensuous, sensual, seductive, musical, austere, alluring, mathematical, geometric, astounding, bodily, pictorial.

Descendants

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Translations

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quality of pleasing appearance
someone beautiful: male
someone beautiful: female
something particularly good or pleasing
excellent or egregious example of something
excellence or genius
beauty quark—seebottom quark
beauty treatment—seecosmetology
prevailing style or taste
beautiful passages or extracts of poetry
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See also

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Interjection

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beauty

  1. (Canada) Thanks!
  2. (Canada) Cool!
    It's the long weekend.Beauty!

Adjective

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beauty (comparativemorebeauty,superlativemostbeauty)

  1. (Canada) Of high quality, well done.
    He made abeauty pass through the neutral zone.

Verb

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beauty (third-person singular simple presentbeauties,present participlebeautying,simple past and past participlebeautied)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To makebeautiful.

Further reading

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Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishbeauty.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbjuː.ti/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation:beau‧ty

Noun

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beauty f (pluralbeauty's,diminutivebeauty'tje n)

  1. a beauty,looker, beautiful person
  2. abeautiful other creature or thing
    Die prachtige hengst is al net zo'nbeauty als z'n ruiter
    That gorgeous stallion is as much of a beauty as his rider
  3. human beauty, as the object or goal ofcosmetics etc.

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