beauty
Meaning
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- The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness.
- Someone who is beautiful.
- Those aspects or elements that make someone or something beautiful.
- Something that is particularly good or pleasing.
- An excellent or egregious example of something.
- The excellence or genius of a scheme or decision.
- (obsolete) A beauty quark (now called bottom quark).
- Beauty treatment; cosmetology.
- (obsolete) Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion.
- Beautiful passages or extracts of poetry.
Synonyms
beautiful woman
fair maiden
beautiful girl
pretty maid
a beauty
beautiful maiden
beautiful face
pretty girl
attractive person
niceness
adonis
superior beauty
geace
piece of the moon
common daisy
noble appearance
goodlihead
beautiful girl or woman
good-looker
physical beauty
the sublime
finery
good order
beautiful person
Frequency
Hyphenated as
beau‧ty
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈbjuːti/
Etymology
In summary
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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