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Proto-Indo-European*dewh₂-der.?
Old Latinduenos
Old Latinduonusder.
Old Latin*duenelos
Vulgar Latinbellus
Proto-Indo-European*-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European*-ts
Proto-Indo-European*-teh₂ts
Proto-Italic*-tāts
Vulgar Latin-tās
Vulgar Latin*bellitātem
Anglo-Normanbiautébor.
Middle Englishbeaute
Englishbeauty

    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.

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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.
      • 1818,John Keats, “Book I”, inEndymion: A Poetic Romance, London: […] T[homas] Miller, […] forTaylor and Hessey, […],→OCLC,page 3, lines1–5:
        A thing ofbeauty is a joy for ever: / Its loveliness increases; it will never / Pass into nothingness; but still will keep / A bower quiet for us, and a sleep / Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
      • 1886 October –1887 January,H[enry] Rider Haggard,She: A History of Adventure, London:Longmans, Green, and Co., published1887,→OCLC:
        ‘Say, hast thou seen enough!’ ‘I have looked onbeauty, and I am blinded,’ I said hoarsely, lifting my hand to cover up my eyes.
      • 1900,Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, inThe House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.:Houghton, Mifflin and Company […],→OCLC:
        Warwick's first glance had revealed the fact that the young woman was strikingly handsome, with a statelybeauty seldom encountered.
      • 1932,Delos W. Lovelace,King Kong, published1965, page152:
        "The aviators didn't get him," Denham replied slowly. "What?" "It wasBeauty. As alwaysBeauty killed the Beast."
      • 1958 July, R. K. Kirkland, “Into the Mountains on the Festiniog Railway”, inRailway Magazine, page453:
        Much as one appreciates thebeauty of these woodlands, it was good to learn that some discreet tree-felling may open up the view still further.
      • 1988, "…beauty and recollection, like danger, glamour, greed, hunger- everything but disappointment and desire- were concepts belonging to other people.” -Second Son, Robert Ferro
    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
    • 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.

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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/
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    • 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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