beauty

beau·ty  (byt)

n. pl. beau·ties

1. The quality that gives pleasure to the mind or senses and is associated with such properties as harmony of form or color, excellence of artistry, truthfulness, and originality.

2. One that is beautiful, especially a beautiful woman.

3. A quality or feature that is most effective, gratifying, or telling: The beauty of the venture is that we stand to lose nothing.

4. An outstanding or conspicuous example: "Hammett's gun went off. The shot was a beauty, just slightly behind the eyes" (Lillian Hellman).

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[Middle English beaute, from Old French biaute, from Vulgar Latin *bellits, from Latin bellus, pretty; see deu-² in Indo-European roots.]

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beauty [ˈbjuːtɪ]

n pl -ties

1. the combination of all the qualities of a person or thing that delight the senses and please the mind

2. a very attractive and well-formed girl or woman

3. Informal an outstanding example of its kind the horse is a beauty

4. Informal an advantageous feature one beauty of the job is the short hours

5. Informal, old-fashioned a light-hearted and affectionate term of address hello, my old beauty!

interj

(General Language Term (NZ)) an expression of approval or agreement Also (Scot, Austral, and NZ) you beauty

[from Old French biauté, from biau beautiful; see beau]

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Beauty

adonism

the beautification of a person, usually a male.

aesthetician, esthetician

1. a specialist in aesthetics.
2. a proponent of aestheticism.

aestheticism, estheticism

the doctrine that the principles of beauty are basic and that other principles (the good, the right) are derived from them, applied especially to a late 19th-century movement to bring art into daily life. See also art.

aesthetics, esthetics

a branch of philosophy dealing with beauty and the beautiful. — aesthetic, n., adj. — aesthetical, adj.

cosmetology

the art or practice of the beautification of the skin, hair, or nails. — cosmetologist, n. — cosmetological, adj.

philocalist

a lover of beauty. — philocaly, n.

pulchritude

physical beauty, especially that of women. — pulchritudinous, adj.

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Beauty 

See Also: BEAUTY, DEFINED; FACE; PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

1. (He was) all beauty, as the sun is all light —Phyllis Bottome
2. Beautiful and faded like an old opera tune played upon a harpsichord —Amy Lowell
3. Beautiful and freckled as a tiger lily —O. Henry
4. Beautiful as a feather in one’s cap —Thomas Carlyle
5. (He is) beautiful as a law of chemistry —Robert Penn Warren
6. Beautiful as a motherless fawn —Bruce De Silva
7. Beautiful as an angel —William Paterson
8. Beautiful as an icon —Rachel Ingalls
9. Beautiful as an illusion —Angela Carter
10. Beautiful as a prince in a fairy story —Mary Lee Settle
11. Beautiful as a rainbow —John Dryden
12. Beautiful as a well-handled tool —Stephen Vincent Benét
13. Beautiful as a woman’s blush and as evanescent too —Letitia Landon
14. (For he was) beautiful as day —Lord Byron
15. Beautiful as fire —Ambrose Bierce
16. Beautiful as honey poured from a jar —People book review
17. (There was a woman) beautiful as morning —Percy Bysshe Shelley
18. Beautiful as nature in the spring —O. S. Wondersford
19. Beautiful as sky and earth —John Greenleaf Whittier
20. (She was as) beautiful as the devil, and twice as dangerous —Dashiell Hammett
21. Beautiful as youth —Dollie Radford
22. Beautiful … like a dream of youth —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
23. Beauty … extraordinary, as if it were painted —Anita Brookner
24. Beauty in a woman’s face, like sweetness in a woman’s lips, is a matter of taste —M. W. Little
25. Beauty is as good as ready money —German proverb
26. Beauty is striking as deformity is striking —Edmund Burke
27. Beauty, like a lantern’s light, will shine outward from within him —George Garrett
28. Beauty … like fine cutlery —John Gardner
29. Donned beauty like a robe —Iris Murdoch
30. Exquisite as the jam of the gods —Tennessee Williams
31. Fair as a lily —Diaphenia

    One of the most popular and enduring flower/beauty comparisons.

32. Fair as any rose —Christina Rossetti
33. Fair as a star —William Wordsworth
34. Fair as heaven or freedom won —Algernon Charles Swinburne
35. Fair as is the rose in May —Geoffrey Chaucer
36. Fair as marble —Percy Bysshe Shelley
37. Fairer than the morning star —Oscar Wilde
38. A fair face without a fair soul is like a glass eye that shines and sees nothing —John Stuart Blackie
39. Gorgeous as Aladdin’s cave —Eleanor Mercein Kelly
40. (In the dingy park) her beauty fled as swiftly as the marmalade kitten had leapt from her grasp —William Trevor
41. Her beauty was as cool as this damp breeze, as the moist softness of her own lips —F. Scott Fitzgerald
42. He’s as pretty as those long-defunct lover-gods —Charles Simic
43. (A novel that would be as) lovely as a Persian carpet, and as unreal —Oscar Wilde
44. Lovely as Spring’s first rose —William Wordsworth
45. Lovely as the evening moon —Amy Lowell
46. Outstanding beauty, like outstanding gifts of any kind, tends to get in the way of normal emotional development, and thus of that particular success in life which we call happiness —Milton R. Sapirstein
47. Pretty as a diamond flush —Alfred Henry Lewis
48. (Face …) pretty as a greeting card —Donald E. Westlake
49. Pretty as a new-laid egg —American colloquialism, attributed to Midwest
50. (There sat Mary) pretty as a rose —Jump Rope Rhyme
51. Pretty as a spotted pony —American colloquialism, attributed to Southeast
52. Pretty as a spotted pup —Mary Hood
53. Pretty as a wax doll —Katherine Mansfield
54. Pretty as the carved face on a … cameo —Davis Grubb
55. Pretty like children on their birthdays —Truman Capote
56. Shed beauty like winter trees —George Garrett
57. She walks in beauty like the night —Lord Byron

    A timeless and much quoted Byron line. It continues with “Of cloudless nights and starry skies.”

58. She was lovely as a flower, and, like a flower, she passed away —Richard Le Gallienne
59. There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire —William Congreve

    In the original manuscript of The Old Bachelor the word ‘something’ was ‘somewhat.’

60. A thing of beauty is a joy forever —John Keats

    A Keats classic that embodies the rule that when it comes to including or implying ‘like’ or ‘as,’ discretion is best.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	beauty - the qualities that give pleasure to the senses appearance, visual aspect - outward or visible aspect of a person or thing raw beauty - beauty that is stark and powerfully impressive resplendence, resplendency, glory - brilliant radiant beauty; "the glory of the sunrise" exquisiteness - extreme beauty of a delicate sort picturesqueness - visually vivid and pleasing pleasingness - an agreeable beauty that gives pleasure or enjoyment; "the liveliness and pleasingness of dark eyes"- T.N. Carver pulchritude - physical beauty (especially of a woman) glamor, glamour - alluring beauty or charm (often with sex-appeal) beauteousness, comeliness, loveliness, fairness - the quality of being good looking and attractive cuteness, prettiness - the quality of being appealing in a delicate or graceful way (of a girl or young woman) good looks, handsomeness - the quality of having regular well-defined features (especially of a man) attractiveness - sexual allure ugliness - qualities of appearance that do not give pleasure to the senses
	2.	beauty - a very attractive or seductive looking woman lulu, mantrap, knockout, stunner, looker, peach, ravisher, smasher, sweetheart, dish adult female, woman - an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted"
	3.	beauty - an outstanding example of its kind; "his roses were beauties"; "when I make a mistake it's a beaut" beaut exemplar, good example, example, model - something to be imitated; "an exemplar of success"; "a model of clarity"; "he is the very model of a modern major general"

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beauty

noun

1. attractiveness, appeal, charm, grace, bloom, glamour, fairness, elegance, symmetry (formal or literary), allure, loveliness, prettiness, seductiveness, gorgeousness, pleasantness, handsomeness, pulchritude, winsomeness, comeliness, exquisiteness, seemliness, pleasingness, prepossessingness an area of outstanding natural beauty
attractiveness ugliness, unpleasantness, repulsiveness, unseemliness

2. good-looker, looker (informal, chiefly U.S.), lovely (slang), sensation, dazzler, belle, goddess, Venus, peach (informal), cracker (slang), wow (slang, chiefly U.S.), dolly (slang), knockout (informal), heart-throb, stunner (informal), charmer, smasher (informal), humdinger (slang), glamour puss She is known as a great beauty.

3. (Informal) advantage, good, use, benefit, profit, gain, asset, attraction, blessing, good thing, utility, excellence, boon the beauty of such water-based minerals
advantage disadvantage, flaw, detraction

Quotations
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever;"
"Its loveliness increases; it will never"
"Pass into nothingness" [John Keats Endymion]
"If you get simple beauty and nought else,"
"You get about the best thing God invents" [Robert Browning Fra Lippo Lippi]
"`Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all"
"Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know" [John Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn]
"The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is" [Nadine Gordimer A Bolter and the Invincible Summer]
"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness" [Leo Tolstoy The Kreutzer Sonata]
"Beauty vanishes; beauty passes" [Walter de la Mare Epitaph]
"Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us" [Eugène Ionesco Present Past - Past Present]
"Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms" [Ralph Waldo Emerson The Conduct of Life]
"Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man" [Fedor Dostoevsky The Brothers Karamazov]
"All changed, changed utterly;"
"A terrible beauty is born" [W.B. Yeats Easter 1916]
"Beauty is feared, more than death" [William Carlos Williams Paterson]
"Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature" [Camille Paglia Sexual Personae]
"Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them" [David Hume Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary]
"Ask a toad what is beauty ...; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat mouth, a yellow belly and a brown back" [Voltaire Philosophical Dictionary]
"I always say beauty is only sin deep" [Saki (H.H. Munro) Reginald]
"Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness" [Stendhal On Love]
"beauty: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband" [Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary]
"Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?" [George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman]
"Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it" [W.Somerset Maugham Cakes and Ale]

Proverbs
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"
"Beauty is only skin deep"

Translations

beauty [ˈbjuːtɪ]

A. N

1. (= quality) → belleza f, hermosura f
the beauty of it is that → lo mejor de esto es que ...
that's the beauty of it → eso es lo que tiene de bueno
beauty is in the eye of the beholder → todo es según el cristal con que se mira
beauty is only skin-deep → la belleza no lo es todo, la belleza es algo sólo superficial

2. (= person, thing) → belleza f, preciosidad f
isn't he a little beauty? (= child) → ¡mira qué rico es el niño!
she's no beauty → no es ninguna belleza
Beauty and the Beast → la Bella y la Bestia
it's a beauty → es una preciosidad
that was a beauty! (= stroke etc) → ¡qué golpe más fino!

3. beauties (= attractions) → maravillas fpl
the beauties of Majorca → las maravillas de Mallorca

B. CPD beauty competition, beauty contest N → concurso m de belleza
beauty consultant N → esteticista mf
beauty cream N → crema f de belleza
beauty editor N → directora f de la sección de belleza
beauty parlour, beauty parlor (US) N → salón m de belleza
beauty product N → producto m de belleza
beauty queen N → reina f de la belleza
beauty salon N → salón m de belleza
beauty sleep N (hum) → primer sueño m
I need my beauty sleep → necesito dormir mis horas(para luego estar bien)
beauty spot N (on face) → lunar m postizo; (in country) → lugar m pintoresco

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beauty [ˈbjuːti] n

(= loveliness) [person, place] → beauté f
the beauties of the countryside → les beautés de la campagne

(= good thing) the beauty of it is that ... → ce qu'il y a de bien, c'est que ...
That's the beauty of it. Any fool can make this → Ce qu'il y a de bien, c'est que n'importe quel imbécile peut le faire.

(= beautiful woman) → beauté f
My mother was no beauty → Ma mère n'était pas une beauté.
beauty competition n → concours m de beauté
beauty contest n → concours m de beauté
beauty pageant n (US) → concours m de beauté
beauty parlour (British) beauty parlor (US) n → institut m de beauté
beauty queen n → reine f de beauté
beauty salon n → institut m de beauté
beauty shop n (US) → institut m de beauté
beauty sleep n → sommeil qui restaure la beauté)m réparateur >
to need one's beauty sleep
I need my beauty sleep → Il me faut ma dose de sommeil.
to get one's beauty sleep → récupérer en dormant
beauty spot n

(on skin) → grain m de beauté

(British) (in countryside) → site m pittoresque

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beauty

n

→ Schönheit f; beauty is only skin-deep (prov) → der äußere Schein kann trügen; beauty is in the eye of the beholder (Prov) → schön ist, was (einem) gefällt

(= beautiful person) → Schönheit f; Beauty and the Beast → die Schöne und das Tier

(= good example) → Prachtexemplar nt; isn’t it a beauty! → ist das nicht ein Prachtstück or Prachtexemplar?

(= pleasing feature) the beauty of it is that … → das Schöne or Schönste daran ist, dass …; that’s the beauty of it → das ist das Schöne daran; one of the beauties of this job is … → eine der schönen Seiten dieser Arbeit ist …

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beauty in cpds → Schönheits-;

beauty care

n → Kosmetik f no pl, → Schönheitspflege f

beauty competition, beauty contest

n → Schönheitswettbewerb m

beauty mark

n ? beauty spot

beauty parlour, (US) beauty parlor

n → Schönheits- or Kosmetiksalon m

beauty queen

n → Schönheitskönigin f

beauty salon, beauty shop

n → Schönheits- or Kosmetiksalon m

beauty sleep

n (hum) → Schlaf m

beauty specialist

n → Kosmetiker(in) m(f)

beauty spot

n

→ Schönheitsfleck m; (= patch also) → Schönheitspflästerchen nt

(= place) → schönes or hübsches Fleckchen (Erde), schöner or hübscher Fleck

beauty treatment

n → kosmetische Behandlung

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beauty [ˈbjuːtɪ]

1. n (concept) → bello; (of person, thing) → bellezza
beauty is in the eye of the beholder → non è bello ciò che è bello, è bello ciò che piace
the beauty of it is that ... → il bello è che...
his car's a beauty! (fam) → ha una macchina che è una meraviglia or una bellezza!

2. adj (consultant, counter) → di bellezza

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beauty

n beauty [ˈbjuːti]

1 a quality very pleasing to the eye, ear etc Her beauty is undeniable. skoonheid جَمال красота krása skønhed die Schönheit ομορφιά belleza ilu زیبایی kauneus beauté יֹפִי @@@יוֹפִי$$$ सुन्दरता ljepota szépség kecantikan fegurð bellezza 美 아름다움 grožis skaistums; daiļums cantik schoonheid skjønnhet piękno, uroda beleza frumuseţe красота krása lepota lepota skönhet ความสวยงาม güzellik 美麗 врода; привабливість خوبصورتی ، حسن vẻ đẹp 美丽

2 a woman or girl having such a quality She was a great beauty in her youth. skoonheid حَسْناء красавица krasavice skønhed die Schönheit καλλονή belleza kaunitar زن خوشگل kaunis nainen beauté יְפֶהפִיָה @@@יְפֶהפִייָה$$$ सुन्दर ljepotica szépség gadis cantik fögur kona bellezza 美女 미인 gražuolė skaistule rupawan schoonheid skjønnhet piękność beleza frumuseţe красавица kráska lepotica lepotica skönhet หญิงงาม güzel(kız/kadın), huri 美人 красуня حسینہ ، خوبصورت người đẹp 美人

3 something or someone remarkable His new car is a beauty! 'n mooie شَيء جَميل забележителност nádhera pragteksemplar das Prachtstück χάρμα belleza, monada, guapada tõeline pärl جالب upea esine merveille דָבַר יָפֶה सुन्दर ljepota csodás vmi hebat gersemi meraviglia すばらしいもの 대단한 것 grožybė [] skaistulis cantik pracht(stuk) praktstykke/-eksemplar cudo beleza minune прелесть nádhera čudo lepotica pärla, praktexemplar สิ่งที่ดีเด่นกว่าสิ่งอื่น nefis şey, güzel şey 令人驚豔的人或物 краса; розкіш خوبصورت شے đẹp 美的东西

adj beautiful

a beautiful woman; Those roses are beautiful. pragtig جَميل красив (pře)krásný smuk schön ωραίος bonita, hermosa, guapa kaunis زیبا kaunis beau יָפֶה सुन्दर lijep, krasan gyönyörű cantik fallegur bello 美しい 아름다운 gražus skaists; daiļš; lielisks lawa mooi skjønn, pen, nydelig, vakker piękny lindo frumos красивый krásny krasen lep, prelep vacker สวยงาม güzel 美麗的 вродливий; прекрасний خوبصورت شے ، حسین đẹp 长成

adv beautifully

pragtig بِصورةٍ جَميلَةٍ красиво krásně; výborně smukt schön ωραία hermosamente kaunilt به زیبایی kauniisti admirablement יָפֶה, הֵיטֵב सुंदरतापूर्वक krasno, lijepo gyönyörűen menakjubkan fallega mirabilmente 美しく 아름답게 gražiai skaisti; daiļi; lieliski sungguh cantik mooi skjønt, vakkert, pent pięknie lindamente admirabil красиво skvele čudovito prelepo vackert อย่างสวยงาม güzel bir şekilde, güzelce 美好地 красиво; чудово خوبصورتی سے tốt đẹp

v beautify [-fai]

to make beautiful She beautified the room with flowers. verfraai يُجمِّـل разкрасявам (z)krášlit forskønne verschönern ομορφαίνω embellecer kaunistama زیبا کردن kaunistaa embellir לְיַפּוֹת सजाना uljepšati szépít mempercantik fegra abbellire 美しくする 아름답게 하다 (pa)puošti izdaiļot mencantikkan verfraaien gjøre vakker, forskjønne upiększyć embelezar a înfru­mu­seţa украшать skrášliť okrasiti ulepšati göra vacker, pryda ทำให้สวยงาม; ประดับประดา güzelleştirmek 美化 прикрашати خوبصورت بنانا ، آرائش کرنا làm đẹp

beauty queen

a girl or woman who is voted the most beautiful in a contest. skoonheidskoningin مَلِكَةِ الجَمال кралица на красотата královna krásy skønhedsdronning die Schönheitskönigin βασίλισσα ομορφιάς reina de la belleza iluduskuninganna ملکه زیبایی kauneuskilpailun voittanut nainen reine de beauté מַלכַּת יוֹפִי सौंदर्य साम्राज्ञी kraljica ljepote szépségkirálynő ratu kecantikan fegurðardrottning reginetta 美人コンテスト優勝者 미인 대회에서 뽑힌 여왕 grožio karalienė skaistuma karaliene ratu cantik schoonheidskoningin skjønnhetsdronning królowa piękności rainha de beleza miss, regină a fru­museţii королева красоты kráľovná krásy lepotna kraljica mis skönhetsdrottning นางงาม güzellik kraliçesi (選美比賽選出的)選美皇后 королева краси ملکۂ حسن hoa hậu （选美比赛选出的）美女王

n beauty salon

(also Americanbeauty parlor, ~beauty shop) a place where customers have cosmetic treatment. skoonheidsalon صالون تَجْميل козметичен салон salón krásy skønhedssalon; skønhedsklinik der Kosmetiksalon ινστιτούτο αισθητικής salón de belleza ilusalong, kosmeetikasalong سالن زیبایی زنانه kauneushoitola institut de beauté מָכוֹן יוֹפִי रूप निखारिका salon za uljepšavanje kozmetikai szalon, szépségszalon salon kecantikan istituto di bellezza 美容室 미용실 kosmetologijos kabinetas kosmētikas kabinets salun kecantikan schoonheidssalon damefrisørsalong, hår– og hudpleiesalong salon kosmetyczny косметический салон salón krásy, kozmetický salón kozmetični salon kozmetički salon skönhetssalong ร้านเสริมสวย güzellik salonu 美容院 салон краси آرائش گھر ، خوبصورت بنانے کی جگہ thẩm mỹ viện

beauty spot

1 a place of great natural beauty a famous beauty spot. mooi plek بُقْعَة جَميلَه красиво място krásné místo, krásná krajina smuk; skøn schönes Fleckchen Erde γραφική τοποθεσία lugar de excepcional belleza natural looduskaunis koht جای زیبا و دیدنی luonnonkaunis paikka site touristique פִּינַת חֶמֶד चेहरे पर काला तिल lijepo mjesto szép hely/táj obyek pariwisata, tempat yang indah náttúruperla (luogo famoso per la sua bellezza) 景勝地 명승지 gražus gamtos kampelis skaists dabas stūrītis tempat yang indah mooi plekje (natur)perle uroczy zakątek recanto turístico obiectiv turistic живописная местность nádherné miesto turistična točka ukras prirode naturskön plats สถานที่สวยงาม güzel (manzaralı) yer 美不勝收的名勝 мальовнича місцевість خوبصورت مقام thắng cảnh 美人痣

2 a mark (often artificial) on the face, intended to emphasize beauty. skoonheidsvlekkie شامَه، خال красиво петно znaménko krásy skønhedsplet der Schönheitsfleck ελιά ομορφιάς lunar postizo iludusmärk خال زیبایی kauneuspilkku grain de beauté נקוּדַת חֵן रमणीक स्थान madež szépségtapasz tanda pada wajah, tahi lalat fegurðarblettur neo 付けぼくろ 애교점 apgamas skaistuma mušiņa tanda pemanis schoonheidspleister skjønnhetsflekk pieprzyk, muszka sinal de beleza aluniţă (de frumuseţe) мушка, родинка znamienko krásy lepotna pika mladež musch สัญลักษณ์บนใบหน้าที่เน้นความงาม (yüzdeki) ben 臉上(通常為刻意點上的)痣，以突顯美感 мушка; родимка خوبصورت نشان nốt ruồi 脸上搽饰的黑斑

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beauty → جمال krása skønhed Schönheit ομορφιά belleza kauneus beauté ljepota bellezza 美しさ 미인 schoonheid skjønnhet piękność beleza красота skönhet ความงาม güzellik vẻ đẹp 美景