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beauty

  • /ˈbjuːti/ UK
  • /ˈbjuti/ US
  • [-ɾi] US
  • [ˈbju̟ti] Canada
  • [ˈbju̟ːɾi] Canada
  • [ˈb(j)ɪu̯ɾ̥ɪ] Canada
  • /ˈbuːti/ Norfolk

Sounds like booty (Norfolk) · Rhymes with -uːti

Where it comes from

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.

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.

noun beauties

  1. uncountable The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness. 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.
  2. countable, uncountable Someone who is beautiful. Brigitte Bardot was a renowned beauty.
  3. countable, in plural, uncountable Those aspects or elements that make someone or something beautiful. 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.
  4. countable, uncountable Something that is particularly good or pleasing. What a goal! That was a real beauty!
  5. countable, uncountable An excellent or egregious example of something. He got into a fight and ended up with two black eyes – two real beauties!
  6. countable, uncountable The excellence or genius of a scheme or decision. The beauty of the deal is it costs nothing!
  7. countable, obsolete, particle, uncountable A beauty quark (now called bottom quark).
  8. countable, uncountable Beauty treatment; cosmetology. a hair and beauty salon
  9. countable, obsolete, uncountable Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion. 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.
  10. archaic, countable, in plural, uncountable Beautiful passages or extracts of poetry.

Similar: gorgeousness, inspiration, loveliness, looker, good looker, beautiful person, beautiful woman, attractiveness, beautifulness, beauty, comeliness, prettiness

interjection

  1. Canada Thanks!
  2. Canada Cool! It's the long weekend. Beauty!

adjective more beauty · most beauty · beautiest

  1. archaic, poetic Possessing beauty; beautiful.
  2. Canada Of high quality, well done. He made a beauty pass through the neutral zone.

verb beauties · beautying · beautied

  1. obsolete, transitive To make beautiful.

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