beauty pageant

English

Noun

beauty pageant (plural beauty pageants)

1. A competition in which participants compete for a determination that one is the most physically attractive.

Synonyms

• beauty contest

Translations

competition on attractiveness

• Arabic: مُسَابَقَة اَلْجَمَال f (musābaqat al-jamāl)
• Basque: ederren lehiaketa
• Catalan: concurs de bellesa m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 選美比賽／选美比赛 (zh) (xuǎnměi bǐsài), 選美／选美 (zh) (xuǎnměi), 選美活動／选美活动 (xuǎnměi huódòng)

• Danish: skønhedskonkurrence c
• Dutch: schoonheidswedstrijd (nl)
• Esperanto: beleco-konkurso
• Estonian: iludusvõistlus
• Finnish: kauneuskilpailu (fi)
• French: concours de beauté (fr) m
• German: Schönheitswettbewerb (de) m
• Greek: διαγωνισμός ομορφιάς m (diagonismós omorfiás), καλλιστεία (el) n pl (kallisteía)
• Hebrew: תחרות יופי
• Hindi: सौंदर्य प्रतियोगिता (saundarya pratiyogitā)
• Hungarian: szépségverseny (hu)
• Icelandic: fegurðarkeppni f, fegurðarsamkeppni f
• Indonesian: kontes kecantikan
• Irish: comórtas áilleachta
• Italian: concorso di bellezza m
• Japanese: 美人コンテスト (bijin kontesuto), ミス・コンテスト (misu-kontesuto)
• Korean: 미인 선발 대회(美人選拔大會) (miin seonbal daehoe), 미인 대회(美人大會) (miin daehoe), 미인 콘테스트 (miin konteseuteu)
• Latvian: skaistuma konkurss m
• Portuguese: concurso de beleza m
• Romanian: concurs de frumusețe
• Russian: ко́нкурс красоты́ m (kónkurs krasotý)
• Spanish: concurso de belleza m
• Swedish: skönhetstävling (sv)
• Tagalog: paringal, timpalak-kagandahan
• Turkish: güzellik yarışması (tr)
• Vietnamese: cuộc thi sắc đẹp (vi)