makeup

See also make up, and make-up

English

Alternative forms

• make-up

Pronunciation

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Noun

Wikipedia makeup (usually uncountable; plural makeups)

1. (uncountable) An item's composition.

   To understand how a nuclear reactor works, we must first look at its makeup.

2. (uncountable) Cosmetics; colorants and other substances applied to the skin to improve its appearance.

   She is wearing a lot of makeup.

Usage notes

The alternative spelling make-up is favored by the Oxford Dictionary, and thus is often considered to be British, while makeup, being preferred by Merriam Webster's dictionary, is the generally accepted American spelling.

Hyponyms

• See also Wikisaurus:toiletry

Translations

composition

Esperanto: konsisto (eo)

Hungarian: felépítés (hu)

cosmetics

Afrikaans: plooipleister (af) Arabic: ماكياج (ar) (makyaaj) m., بنية (ar) (búnya) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 化妝 (cmn), 化妆 (cmn) (huàzhuāng) Danish: makeup (da), sminke (da) Finnish: meikki (fi), pakkeli (fi) French: maquillage (fr) m. German: Schminke (de) f., Make-up (de) n. Hungarian: smink (hu)

Icelandic: farði (is) m., meik (is) n. Japanese: 化粧 (ja) (けしょう, keshō), メイク (ja) (meiku), メイクアップ (ja) (meikuappu) Macedonian: шминка (mk) (šmínka) f. Portuguese: maquiagem (pt) f. Romanian: machiaj n. Russian: макияж (ru) (makijáž) m., грим (ru) (grim) m., гримировка (ru) (grimiróvka) f. Spanish: maquillaje (es) m. Swedish: smink (sv) n., kosmetika (sv) c., make-up (sv) Turkish: makyaj (tr)