beauty

== English == === Etymology === 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. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbjuːti/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbjuti/, [-ɾi] (Canada) IPA(key): [ˈbju̟ti], [ˈbju̟ːɾi], [ˈb(j)ɪu̯ɾ̥ɪ] (Norfolk) IPA(key): /ˈbuːti/ Homophone: booty (Norfolk) Rhymes: -uːti Hyphenation: beau‧ty === Noun === beauty (countable and uncountable, plural beauties) (uncountable) The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness. 1988, "… beauty and recollection, like danger, glamour, greed, hunger- everything but disappointment and desire- were concepts belonging to other people.” -Second Son, Robert Ferro Someone who is beautiful. (in the plural) Those aspects or elements that make someone or something beautiful. Something that is particularly good or pleasing. An excellent or egregious example of something. (with the definite article) The excellence or genius of a scheme or decision. (particle physics, obsolete) A beauty quark (now called bottom quark). Beauty treatment; cosmetology. (obsolete) Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion. (archaic, in the plural) Beautiful passages or extracts of poetry. ==== Synonyms ==== (property, quality): good-lookingness, gorgeousness, inspiration, loveliness, see Thesaurus:beauty (someone who is beautiful): belle, looker, good looker, see Thesaurus:beautiful person or Thesaurus:beautiful woman (something pleasing): gem, jewel ==== Antonyms ==== (antonym(s) of “property, quality”): repulsiveness, homeliness, ugliness ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Collocations ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Cebuano: byuti ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== usefulness === Interjection === beauty (Canada) Thanks! (Canada) Cool! === Adjective === beauty (comparative more beauty, superlative most beauty) (Canada) Of high quality, well done. === Verb === beauty (third-person singular simple present beauties, present participle beautying, simple past and past participle beautied) (obsolete, transitive) To make beautiful. === Further reading === “beauty”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “beauty”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. == Dutch == === Etymology === Borrowed from English beauty. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈbjuː.ti/ Hyphenation: beau‧ty === Noun === beauty f (plural beauty's, diminutive beauty'tje n) a beauty, looker, beautiful person a beautiful other creature or thing human beauty, as the object or goal of cosmetics etc. ==== Synonyms ==== schoonheid (beautiful thing only): juweeltje n, prachtexemplaar n