Beauty

//ˈbjuːti// adj, intj, noun, verb

adj, intj, noun, verb ·Very common ·Middle school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness. uncountable

    "A thing of beauty 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."

  2. 2
    the qualities that give pleasure to the senses wordnet
  3. 3
    Someone who is beautiful. countable, uncountable

    "Brigitte Bardot was a renowned beauty."

  4. 4
    an outstanding example of its kind wordnet
  5. 5
    Those aspects or elements that make someone or something beautiful. countable, in-plural, uncountable

    "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 glowing beauties."

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  1. 6
    a very attractive or seductive looking woman wordnet
  2. 7
    Something that is particularly good or pleasing. countable, uncountable

    "What a goal! That was a real beauty!"

  3. 8
    An excellent or egregious example of something. countable, uncountable

    "He got into a fight and ended up with two black eyes – two real beauties!"

  4. 9
    The excellence or genius of a scheme or decision. countable, uncountable

    "The beauty of the deal is it costs nothing!"

  5. 10
    A beauty quark (now called bottom quark). countable, obsolete, particle, uncountable
  6. 11
    Beauty treatment; cosmetology. countable, uncountable

    "a hair and beauty salon"

  7. 12
    Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion. countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "Menander in the comedy brings in a man turning his wife from his house, because she stained her hair yellow, which was then the beauty."

  8. 13
    Beautiful passages or extracts of poetry. archaic, countable, in-plural, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    To make beautiful. obsolete, transitive
Adjective
  1. 1
    Of high quality, well done. Canada

    "He made a beauty pass through the neutral zone."

Intj
  1. 1
    Thanks! Canada
  2. 2
    Cool! Canada

    "It's the long weekend. Beauty!"

Synonyms

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bellelookeradvantageassetattractionattractiveness

Example

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"Beauty lies in the eyes of the one who sees."

Etymology

From Middle English bewty, bewte, beaute, bealte, from Anglo-Norman and Old French beauté (early Old French spelling biauté), from Vulgar Latin *bellitātem (“beauty”), from Latin bellus (“beautiful, fair”); see beau. In this sense, mostly displaced native Old English fæġernes, whence Modern English fairness.

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