adj
Meaning 1
Possessing beauty; beautiful.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, poetic
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adj
Possessing beauty; beautiful.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, poetic
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adj
Of high quality, well done.
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Usage: Canada
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intj
Thanks!
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Usage: Canada
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intj
Cool!
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Usage: Canada
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noun
The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness.
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Usage: uncountable
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noun
Someone who is beautiful.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Those aspects or elements that make someone or something beautiful.
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Usage: countable, in-plural, uncountable
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noun
Something that is particularly good or pleasing.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
An excellent or egregious example of something.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The excellence or genius of a scheme or decision.
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noun
A beauty quark (now called bottom quark).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, particle, uncountable
Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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noun
Beauty treatment; cosmetology.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion.
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Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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noun
Beautiful passages or extracts of poetry.
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Usage: archaic, countable, in-plural, uncountable
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verb
To make beautiful.
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Usage: obsolete, transitive
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noun
the qualities that give pleasure to the senses
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: ugliness
Broader terms: appearance, visual aspect
Narrower terms: raw beauty, glory, resplendence, resplendency, exquisiteness, picturesqueness, pleasingness, pulchritude, glamor, glamour, comeliness, fairness, loveliness, beauteousness, prettiness, cuteness, handsomeness, good looks, attractiveness
noun
an outstanding example of its kind
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: beaut
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: exemplar, example, model, good example
noun
a very attractive or seductive looking woman
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: smasher, stunner, knockout, ravisher, sweetheart, peach, lulu, looker, mantrap, dish
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: woman, adult female
History
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.
Across languages
363 source translations are retained for this English entry.