beauty
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[edit] English
| Rank of this word in the English language, from analyzing texts from Project Gutenberg. | ||||||
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| heavy | single | foot | #617: beauty | attention | standing | books |
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈbjuːti/
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- Rhymes: -uːti
[edit] Etymology
From Anglo-Norman
[edit] Noun
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beauty (countable and uncountable; plural beauties)
- 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
- Someone who is beautiful.
- Jane is a beauty.
- Something that is particularly good or pleasing.
- My car is a beauty.
- What a goal, what a beauty.
- An excellent or egregious example of something.
- (physics) The beauty quark.
[edit] Antonyms
- (property, quality): repulsiveness, homeliness, ugliness
[edit] Synonyms
- (property, quality): gorgeousness, inspiration, loveliness
[edit] Derived terms
[edit] Translations
quality of pleasing appearance
beautiful woman
something particularly good or pleasing
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[edit] Interjection
beauty
- (Canada) Thanks! Cool!
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- It's the long weekend. Beauty!
[edit] Adverb
beauty (comparative more beauty, superlative most beauty)
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Comparative |
Superlative |
- (Canada) Of high quality, well done.
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- He made a beauty pass through the neutral zone.
