beauty
Part of speech: noun
intj
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der.?
Proto-Italic *dwenos
Old Latin duenos
Old Latin *duenelos
Vulgar Latin bellus
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Proto-Italic *-tāts
Vulgar Latin -itātem
Vulgar Latin *bellitātem
Anglo-Norman biautébor.
Middle English beaute
English beauty
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.
Inflected forms:
form: beauties
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more beauty
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most beauty
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: 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.
‘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.
Warwick's first glance had revealed the fact that the young woman was strikingly handsome, with a stately beauty seldom encountered.
"The aviators didn't get him," Denham replied slowly. "What?" "It was Beauty. As always Beauty killed the Beast."
Much as one appreciates the beauty 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
gloss: Someone who is beautiful.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Brigitte Bardot was a renowned beauty.
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".
gloss: Those aspects or elements that make someone or something beautiful.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: Something that is particularly good or pleasing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: What a goal! That was a real beauty!
gloss: An excellent or egregious example of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He got into a fight and ended up with two black eyes – two real beauties!
gloss: The excellence or genius of a scheme or decision.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The beauty of the deal is it costs nothing!
gloss: A beauty quark (now called bottom quark).
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
particle
uncountable
gloss: Beauty treatment; cosmetology.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a hair and beauty salon
When the beauty team departs the set, the AD will say, “Let’s go on a bell.” A bell sounds throughout the stage, and […]
gloss: Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: Beautiful passages or extracts of poetry.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
in-plural
uncountable
gloss: Thanks!
pos: intj
tags: Canada
gloss: Cool!
pos: intj
tags: Canada
examples: It's the long weekend. Beauty!
gloss: Of high quality, well done.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
examples: He made a beauty pass through the neutral zone.
Synonyms: gorgeousness
inspiration
loveliness
looker
good looker
beautiful person
beautiful woman
attractiveness
beautifulness
beauty
comeliness
prettiness
pulchritude
gem
jewel
Antonyms: repulsiveness
homeliness
ugliness
Related words: usefulness
beautiful
beautiful man
beautiful woman
Derived words: 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 cake
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
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