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Physical beauty.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Examples
- 1978, Charles D. Benson and William Barnaby Faherty, Moonport: A History of Apollo Launch Facilities and Operations, NASA Special Publication 4204, 1978, ch. 4 https://web.archive.org/web/20061020074600/http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4204/ch4-8.html One participant recalls arriving at his Cocoa Beach motel on a Saturday evening with the Miss Universe contest on TV. To his wife's amazement, his interest in feminine pulchritude gave way to fatigue, and he was asleep before the final selection.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: comeliness, attractiveness, beautifulness, beauty, good-lookingness, gorgeousness, loveliness, prettiness, pulchritude
Antonyms: none provided
physical beauty (especially of a woman)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: beauty
Narrower terms: curvaceousness, shapeliness, voluptuousness
From Middle English pulcritude, from Latin pulchritūdō, from pulcher (“beautiful”).
Across languages
Translations
12 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Chinese:
體態美 /体态美
— pulchritude
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Dutch:
schoonheid
— pulchritude
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French:
vénusté
— pulchritude
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French:
beauté
— pulchritude
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German:
Schönheit
— pulchritude
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Italian:
pulcritudine
— pulchritude
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Italian:
venustà
— pulchritude
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Japanese:
肉体美
— pulchritude
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Kapampangan:
leguan
— pulchritude
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Polish:
uroda
— pulchritude
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Portuguese:
beleza
— pulchritude
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Russian:
красота́
(krasotá)
— pulchritude
