# beauty
## English
### 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.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈbjuːti/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈbjuti/, [-ɾi]
* (Canada) IPA: [ˈbju̟ti], [ˈbju̟ːɾi], [ˈb(j)ɪu̯ɾ̥ɪ]
* Audio (General American):(file)
* (Norfolk) IPA: /ˈbuːti/
* Homophone: booty (Norfolk)
* Rhymes: -uːti
* Hyphenation: beau‧ty

### Noun

beauty (countable and uncountable, plural beauties)
* (uncountable) The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness.
** 1818, John Keats, “Book I”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: […] T[homas] Miller, […] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 3, lines 1–5: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.
** 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:‘Say, hast thou seen enough!’ ‘I have looked on beauty, and I am blinded,’ I said hoarsely, lifting my hand to cover up my eyes.
** 1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The 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 stately beauty seldom encountered.
** 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 152:"The aviators didn't get him," Denham replied slowly. "What?" "It was Beauty. As always Beauty killed the Beast."
** 1988, "… beauty and recollection, like danger, glamour, greed, hunger- everything but disappointment and desire- were concepts belonging to other people.” -Second Son, Robert Ferro
* Someone who is beautiful.
    Brigitte Bardot was a renowned beauty.
** 2004 April 13, Nick Paton Walsh, “Ample Alyona shakes up Russian pageant”, in The Guardian‎: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".
* (in the plural) Those aspects or elements that make someone or something beautiful.
** 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander 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 glowing beauties.
* Something that is particularly good or pleasing.
    What a goal! That was a real beauty!
* An excellent or egregious example of something.
    He got into a fight and ended up with two black eyes – two real beauties!
* (with the definite article) The excellence or genius of a scheme or decision.
    The beauty of the deal is it costs nothing!
* (physics, obsolete) A beauty quark (now called bottom quark).
* Beauty treatment; cosmetology.
    a hair and beauty salon
** 2013, Bethany Rooney, Mary Lou Belli, Directors Tell the Story, page 184:When the beauty team departs the set, the AD will say, “Let’s go on a bell.” A bell sounds throughout the stage, and […]
* (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.”, in Reginald Heber, editor, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, D.D. […], volume V, London: Ogle, Duncan, and Co. […]; and Richard Priestley, […], published 1822, →OCLC, page 277: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.
* (archaic, in the plural) Beautiful passages or extracts of poetry.

#### Synonyms

* (property, quality): good-lookingness, gorgeousness, inspiration, loveliness, see Thesaurus:beauty
* (someone who is beautiful): belle, looker, good looker, see Thesaurus:beautiful person or Thesaurus:beautiful woman
* (something pleasing): gem, jewel

#### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “property, quality”): repulsiveness, homeliness, ugliness

#### Derived terms

* age before beauty
* antibeauty
* anti-beauty quark
* bathing beauty
* beaut
* beauteous
* beautician
* beautifiable
* beautification
* beautifier
* beautiful
* beautifully
* beautifulness
* beautify
* beautihood
* beautiless
* beautility
* beautiness
* beautisome
* beauty and the beast
* beautyberry
* beauty blender
* beauty bush
* beautybush
* beauty contest
* beauty dish
* beautydom
* beauty factory
* beauty fades, dumb is forever
* beauty heart radish
* beauty is but skin-deep
* beauty is in the eye of the beer holder
* beauty is in the eye of the beholder
* beauty is only skin deep
* beautyless
* beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder
* beauty-mark
* beauty mark
* beautyness
* beauty pageant
* beauty parade
* beauty parlor
* beauty parlour
* beautypreneur
* beauty product
* beauty quark
* beauty queen
* beauty rest
* beauty salon
* beauty school
* beauty shop
* beauty shot
* beauty sleep
* beauty-sleep
* beauty spot
* beauty won't make the pot boil
* betel nut beauty
* bewdy
* black beauty
* Camberwell beauty
* Flemish beauty
* K-beauty
* line of beauty
* meadow beauty
* nonbeauty
* painted beauty
* plastic beauty
* Rutland beauty
* Sleeping Beauty
* sleeping beauty
* spring beauty
* unbeauty
* you beauty

#### 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

* → Cebuano: byuti

#### Translations

Arabic: جَمَال (ar) m (jamāl), زَيْن (ar) m (zayn)
Egyptian Arabic: جمال m (gamāl)
Moroccan Arabic: زين m (zayn), زين m (zīn)
Aramaic:
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܫܘܼܦܪܵܐ (šupra)
Armenian: գեղեցկություն (hy) (geġecʻkutʻyun)
Assamese: সুন্দৰতা (xundorota), সৌন্দৰ্য্য (xoundorzyo)
Azerbaijani: gözəllik (az), hüsn (poetic)
Belarusian: прыгажо́сць f (pryhažóscʹ), хараство́ n (xarastvó), краса́ f (krasá)
Bengali: সৌন্দর্য (bn) (śōundorjo), খুবসুরতী (bn) (khubsuroti), জামাল (bn) (jamal)
Berber: aẓři, aẓli, tiẓilt
Bulgarian: ху́бост (bg) f (húbost), красота́ (bg) f (krasotá), пре́лест (bg) f (prélest)
Catalan: bellesa (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 美麗 / 美丽 (zh) (měilì), 漂亮 (zh) (piàoliang), 美 (zh) (měi)
Wu: 美 ($^5$me)
Coptic: ⲙⲛⲧⲥⲁⲉⲓⲉ (mntsaeie)
Czech: krása (cs) f
Danish: skønhed c
Dutch: schoonheid (nl) f
Egyptian: (nfrw)
Esperanto: beleco, belo
Estonian: ilu
Farefare: sõŋa
Finnish: kauneus (fi)
French: beauté (fr) f
Friulian: bielece f
Galician: beleza (gl) f, fermosura f
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Schönheit (de) f
Greek: ομορφιά (el) f (omorfiá)
Ancient: κάλλος f (kállos)
Hebrew: יופי (he) m (yófi)
Hindi: सौन्दर्य (saundarya), सुंदरता (hi) (sundartā), ख़ूबसूरती f (xūbsūrtī), हुस्न (hi) m (husna)
Hungarian: szépség (hu)
Iban: bajik
Icelandic: fegurð (is) f
Ido: beleso (io)
Ingrian: käpehys
Irish: áilleacht f, spéiriúlacht f, áille f, scéimh f, maise f, breáichte f
Istriot: balissa f
Italian: bellezza (it) f
Japanese: 美しさ (ja) (うつくしさ, utsukushisa), (component) 美 (ja) (び, bi)
Korean: 아름다움 (ko) (areumdaum), 미(美) (ko) (mi)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: جوانی (cwanî)
Kyrgyz: сулуулук (ky) (suluuluk), кооздук (ky) (koozduk)
Latin: pulchritūdō f, formōsitās f
Latvian: daiļums m, skaistums m, glītums m
Lithuanian: gražumas m, grožis (lt) m
Low German: Schöönheit f
Macedonian: уба́вина f (ubávina), красо́та f (krasóta), у́бост f (úbost)
Maharastri Prakrit: 𑀭𑀽𑀅 (rūa)
Malayalam: സൗന്ദര്യം (ml) (saundaryaṁ), മനോഹാരിത (ml) (manōhārita)
Maltese: sbuħija f, ġmiel
Manx: aalid m, aalinid, bwoyid m, stoamid
Maori: rerehua
Marathi: सौंदर्य n (saundarya), सुंदरता f (sundartā)
Mongolian: гоо үзэсгэлэн (goo üzesgelen), сайхан байдал (sajxan bajdal)
Nheengatu: purangasawa
Norman: bieauté f (Jersey)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: skjønnhet (no) m or f
Nynorsk: venleik (nn) m, skjønnheit (nn) f
Occitan: belesa (oc) f
Old English: fægernes f
Old French: biauté f
Persian: زیبایی (fa), جمال (fa), حسن (fa), قشنگی (fa)
Plautdietsch: Scheenheit f
Polish: piękno (pl) n, uroda (pl) f, krasa f, pięknota f (archaic), krasota f (archaic)
Portuguese: beleza (pt) f
Romanian: frumusețe (ro) f
Romansch: bellezza f (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader), bellezia f (Sursilvan), baleztgia f (Sutsilvan), balegia f (Sutsilvan), belezza f (Surmiran)
Russian: красота́ (ru) f (krasotá), пре́лесть (ru) f (prélestʹ), краса́ (ru) f (krasá) (dated), лепота́ (ru) f (lepotá) (dated, poetic)
Sanskrit: इन्दिरा (sa) f (indirā)
Sardinian: bellesa f
Scots: beauty, brawness
Scottish Gaelic: àilleachd f, maise f, sgèimh f, bòidhchead f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: лепота f, красота f (poetic), бај m (poetic), дивота
Roman: lepota (sh) f, krasota (sh) f (poetic), baj (sh) m (poetic), divota (sh)
Sicilian: bidizza f
Slovak: krása f
Slovene: lepota (sl) f
Somali: qurux
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: rědnosć f
Spanish: belleza (es) f, hermosura (es) f, preciosidad f, preciosura f, beldad (es) f, lindeza (es) f, fermosura (es) f (disused)
Sudovian: grozis m
Swahili: urembo (sw), uzuri (sw), jamala (sw)
Swedish: skönhet (sv) c, fägring (sv) c (poetic)
Tagalog: ganda, kagandahan
Tajik: зебоӣ (tg) (zeboi)
Tamil: அழகு (ta) (aḻaku), எழில் (ta) (eḻil), சௌந்தரியம் (ta) (cauntariyam)
Telugu: అందము (te) (andamu), చక్కదనము (te) (cakkadanamu)
Thai: ความสวย (th) (kwaam-sǔai), ความสวยงาม (th) (kwaam-sǔai-ngaam)
Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: güzellik (tr)
Tuvan: чаражы (çarajı)
Ukrainian: краса́ f (krasá), вро́да f (vróda)
Urdu: خوبصورتی f (xūbsūrtī)
Uyghur: گۈزەللىك (güzellik)
Venetan: bełeça f
Volapük: jön (vo)
Votic: ilozuz
Welsh: harddwch m, prydferthwch m
Yiddish: שיינקײַט f (sheynkayt) :
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#### See also

* usefulness

### Interjection

beauty
* (Canada) Thanks!
* (Canada) Cool!
    It's the long weekend. Beauty!

### Adjective

beauty (comparative more beauty, superlative most beauty)
* (Canada) Of high quality, well done.
    He made a beauty pass through the neutral zone.

### Verb

beauty (third-person singular simple present beauties, present participle beautying, simple past and past participle beautied)
* (obsolete, transitive) To make beautiful.

### Further reading

* “beauty”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “beauty”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English beauty.

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

beauty f (plural beauty's, diminutive beauty'tje n)
* a beauty, looker, beautiful person
* a beautiful other creature or thing
    Die prachtige hengst is al net zo'n beauty als z'n ruiterThat gorgeous stallion is as much of a beauty as his rider
* human beauty, as the object or goal of cosmetics etc.

#### Synonyms

* schoonheid
* (beautiful thing only): juweeltje n, prachtexemplaar n