beauty
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Noun (3)beauties
- the qualities that give pleasure to the sensesOpposite uglinessType of appearance, visual aspectKinds glory, comeliness, handsomeness, prettiness, glamor, gorgeousness, pulchritude, attractiveness, enchantingness, exquisiteness +2 moreAttribute of beautiful, ugly
- a very attractive or seductive looking womanSynonyms: smasherstunnerknockoutravishersweetheartpeachlululookermantrapdishType of woman, adult female
- an outstanding example of its kind“his roses were beauties”“when I make a mistake it's a beaut”Synonyms: beautType of exemplar, example
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Translations
Noun quality of pleasing appearance
- Spanish
- belleza
- French
- beauté
- German
- Schönheit
- Italian
- bellezza
- Portuguese
- beleza
- Turkish
- güzellik
- Russian
- красота́ krasotá
- Arabic
- جَمَال jamāl
- Chinese
- 美丽 měilì
- Japanese
- 美 bi
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- Dutch
- schoonheid
- Polish
- piękno
- Swedish
- skönhet
- Greek
- ομορφιά omorfiá
- Korean
- 미 mi
- Hungarian
- szépség
- Portuguese (PT)
- beleza
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 美麗 měilì
- Albanian
- bukuri
- Catalan
- bellesa
- Czech
- krása
- Danish
- skønhed
- Esperanto
- beleco
- Estonian
- ilu
- Finnish
- kauneus
- Georgian
- სილამაზე silamaze
- Hebrew
- יופי yófi
- Icelandic
- fegurð
- Kurdish
- delalî
- Latvian
- skaistums
- Lithuanian
- grožis
- Norwegian
- skjønnhet
- Romanian
- frumusețe
- Scottish Gaelic
- àilleachd
- Serbo-Croatian
- lepota
- Slovak
- krása
- Slovenian
- lepota
- Swahili
- jamala
- Welsh
- harddwch
- Yiddish
- שיינקײַט sheynkayt
Noun someone beautiful
- Spanish
- belleza
- French
- beauté
- German
- Schönheit
- Italian
- bellezza
- Portuguese
- beleza
- Russian
- краса́вица krasávica
- Arabic
- حَسْنَاء ḥasnāʔ
- Chinese
- 美人 měirén
- Japanese
- 美人 bijin
- Dutch
- schoonheid
Noun someone beautiful
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. beaute, beute, OF. beauté, biauté, Pr. beltat, F. beauté, fr. an assumed LL. bellitas, from L. bellus pretty. See Beau.
1. An assemblage of graces or properties pleasing to the eye, the ear, the intellect, the æsthetic faculty, or the moral sense.
Beauty consists of a certain composition of color and figure, causing delight in the beholder.— John Locke
The production of beauty by a multiplicity of symmetrical parts uniting in a consistent whole.— William Wordsworth
The old definition of beauty, in the Roman school, was, “multitude in unity;” and there is no doubt that such is the principle of beauty.— Samuel T. Coleridge
2. A particular grace, feature, ornament, or excellence; anything beautiful; as, the beauties of nature.
3. A beautiful person, esp. a beautiful woman.
All the admired beauties of Verona.— William Shakespeare
4. Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion. obsolete
She stained her hair yellow, which was then the beauty.— Taylor, Jeremy
Beauty spot, a patch or spot placed on the face with intent to heighten beauty by contrast.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54