beauty
//ˈbjuːti//
Forms
- Plural
- beauties
- Comparative
- more beauty
- Superlative
- most beauty
Definitions
1.The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness.
- “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,”, that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
- "The aviators didn't get him," Denham replied slowly. "What?" "It was Beauty. As always Beauty killed the Beast."
- Warwick's first glance had revealed the fact that the young woman was strikingly handsome, with a stately beauty seldom encountered.
2.Someone who is beautiful.
- Brigitte Bardot was a renowned beauty.
3.Those aspects or elements that make someone or something beautiful.
4.Something that is particularly good or pleasing.
- What a goal! That was a real beauty!
1.Thanks!
2.Cool!
- It's the long weekend. Beauty!
1.Of high quality, well done.
- He made a beauty pass through the neutral zone.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1919
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Uncommon
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Synonyms
Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der.?
Proto-Italic *dwenos
Old Latin duenos
Old Latin *duenelos
Latin bellus
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Proto-Italic *-tāts
Latin -itātem
Vulgar Latin *bellitātem
Anglo-Norman biautébor.