beauty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbjuːti/
ipa: /ˈbjuti/
ipa: [-ɾi]
ipa: [ˈbju̟ti]
ipa: [ˈbju̟ːɾi]
ipa: [ˈb(j)ɪu̯ɾ̥ɪ]
ipa: /ˈbuːti/
homophone: booty (Norfolk)
rhymes: -uːti
Forms: form: beauties
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.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1818, John Keats, “Book I”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: […] T[homas] Miller, […] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 3, lines 1–5:
text: ‘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.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: Warwick's first glance had revealed the fact that the young woman was strikingly handsome, with a stately beauty seldom encountered.
ref: 1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:
text: "The aviators didn't get him," Denham replied slowly. "What?" "It was Beauty. As always Beauty killed the Beast."
ref: 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 152:
text: 1988, "… beauty and recollection, like danger, glamour, greed, hunger- everything but disappointment and desire- were concepts belonging to other people.” -Second Son, Robert Ferro
glosses: The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness.
examples: text: Brigitte Bardot was a renowned beauty.
text: 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".
ref: 2004 April 13, Nick Paton Walsh, “Ample Alyona shakes up Russian pageant”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Someone who is beautiful.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 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:
glosses: Those aspects or elements that make someone or something beautiful.
examples: text: What a goal! That was a real beauty!
glosses: Something that is particularly good or pleasing.
examples: text: He got into a fight and ended up with two black eyes – two real beauties!
glosses: An excellent or egregious example of something.
examples: text: The beauty of the deal is it costs nothing!
glosses: The excellence or genius of a scheme or decision.
raw_tags: with the definite article
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A beauty quark (now called bottom quark).
examples: text: a hair and beauty salon
text: When the beauty team departs the set, the AD will say, “Let’s go on a bell.” A bell sounds throughout the stage, and […]
ref: 2013, Bethany Rooney, Mary Lou Belli, Directors Tell the Story, page 184:
glosses: Beauty treatment; cosmetology.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 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:
glosses: Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion.
glosses: Beautiful passages or extracts of poetry.
Synonyms: topics: property
sense: quality
word: good-lookingness
word: gorgeousness
word: inspiration
word: loveliness
sense: someone who is beautiful
word: belle
word: looker
word: good looker
word: beautiful person
word: beautiful woman
sense: something pleasing
word: gem
sense: something pleasing
word: jewel
word: attractiveness
word: beautifulness
word: beauty
word: comeliness
word: prettiness
word: pulchritude
Hypernyms: word: guise
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
inner beauty
K-beauty
line of beauty
meadow beauty
nonbeauty
outer beauty
painted beauty
plastic beauty
Rutland beauty
Sleeping Beauty
sleeping beauty
spring beauty
unbeauty
you beauty
Related terms: word: usefulness
word: beautiful
word: beautiful man
word: beautiful woman