beauty

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From Anglo-Norman < Old French biaute < Vulgar Latin *bellitās (beauty) < Latin bellus (beautiful, fair); see beau and fair.

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Singular
beauty

Plural
countable and uncountable; plural beauties

beauty (countable and uncountable; plural beauties)

  1. The property, quality or state of being "that which pleases merely by being perceived" (Aquinas); that which is 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
  2. Someone who is beautiful.
    Chris is a beauty.
  3. Something that is particularly good or pleasing.
    That phrasing is a beauty.
    What a goal, what a beauty.
  4. An excellent or egregious example of something.
  5. (with the definite article) The excellence, e.g. the genius
  6. The beauty of the deal is it costs nothing!
  7. (physics) A beauty quark.

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beauty

  1. (Canadian) Thanks! Cool!
    It's the long weekend. Beauty!

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beauty (comparative more beauty, superlative most beauty)

Positive
beauty

Comparative
more beauty

Superlative
most beauty

  1. (Canadian) Of high quality, well done.
    He made a beauty pass through the neutral zone.

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From English beauty.

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beauty (plural beauties or beauty's, diminutive beautytje, diminutive plural beautytjes)

  1. A beauty, looker, beautiful person
  2. A beautiful other creature or thing
    Die prachtige hengst is al net zo'n beauty als z'n ruiter
    That gorgeous stallion is as much of a beauty as his rider
  3. Human beauty, as the object or goal of cosmetics etc.

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