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)

• Russian: состав (ru) (sostáv) m , строение (ru) (strojénije) n , устройство (ru) (ustrójstvo) n 

cosmetics

• Afrikaans: plooipleister (af)
• Arabic: ماكياج (ar) (makyāj) m, بنية (ar) (búnya) f
• Asturian: maquillaxe (ast) m
• Azeri: makiyaj (az)
• Catalan: maquillatge (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 化妝 (cmn), 化妆 (cmn) (huàzhuāng)

• Danish: makeup (da), sminke (da)
• Finnish: meikki (fi), pakkeli (fi)
• French: maquillage (fr) m
• Galician: maquillaxe (gl) f

• 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 
• Serbo-Croatian: šminka (sh), шминка (sh)
• Spanish: maquillaje (es) m
• Swedish: smink (sv) n, kosmetika (sv) c, make-up (sv)
• Turkish: makyaj (tr)