Sekirov Dictionary

beauty

/ˈbjuːti/

noun 10
adjective 2
exclamation 2
verb 1
forms 6
phrases 3

noun10

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the quality that makes someone or something very pleasing to look at or to listen to
- “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,”—that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. — 1819
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Someone who is beautiful.
- Brigitte Bardot was a renowned beauty.
[in the plural] Those aspects or elements that make someone or something beautiful.
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Beauty treatment; cosmetology.
- When the beauty team departs the set, the AD will say, “Let’s go on a bell.” A bell sounds throughout the stage, and […] — 2013
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The excellence or genius of a scheme or decision.
- The beauty of the deal is it costs nothing!
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Something that is particularly good or pleasing.
- What a goal! That was a real beauty!
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An excellent or egregious example of something.
- He got into a fight and ended up with two black eyes – two real beauties!
[in the plural] (no longer used) Beautiful passages or extracts of poetry.
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(no longer used) Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion.
- Menander in the comedy brings in a man turning his wife from his house, because she stained her hair yellow, which was then the beauty. — 1653
(no longer used) A beauty quark (now called bottom quark).

adjective2

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(Canada) Of high quality, well done.
- He made a beauty pass through the neutral zone.
(literary, no longer used) Possessing beauty; beautiful.

exclamation2

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(Canada) Cool!
- It's the long weekend. Beauty!
(Canada) Thanks!

verb1

(no longer used) To make beautiful.

forms

beautied · beautying · beauties · more beauty · beautiest · most beauty

Phrases with beauty

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