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beauty
English
Etymology
From Middle English bewty, bewte, beaute, bealte, from Anglo-Norman and Old French beauté (early Old French spelling biauté), from Vulgar Latin *bellit?s (“beauty”), from Latin bellus (“beautiful, fair”); see beau. In this sense, mostly displaced native Old English fæ?ernes, whence Modern English fairness.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bju?ti/
- (US) IPA(key): [?bju?i]
- (Norfolk) IPA(key): /?bu?ti/
- (Norfolk) Homophone: booty
- Rhymes: -u?ti
Noun
beauty (countable and uncountable, plural beauties)
- The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness.
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
- Warwick's first glance had revealed the fact that the young woman was strikingly handsome, with a stately beauty seldom encountered.
- 1988, "… beauty and recollection, like danger, glamour, greed, hunger- everything but disappointment and desire- were concepts belonging to other people.” -Second Son, Robert Ferro
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
- Someone who is beautiful.
- Brigitte Bardot was a renowned beauty.
- Something that is particularly good or pleasing.
- What a goal! That was a real beauty!
- An excellent or egregious example of something.
- He got into a fight and ended up with two black eyes – two real beauties!
- (with the definite article) The excellence or genius of a scheme or decision.
- The beauty of the deal is it costs nothing!
- (physics, obsolete) A beauty quark (now called bottom quark).
- Beauty treatment; cosmetology.
- (obsolete) Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion.
- 1653, Jeremy Taylor, Twenty-five Sermons preached at Golden Grove; being for the Winter Half-year, "The Marriage Ring"
- She stained her hair yellow, which was then the beauty.
- 1653, Jeremy Taylor, Twenty-five Sermons preached at Golden Grove; being for the Winter Half-year, "The Marriage Ring"
- (archaic, in the plural) Beautiful passages or extracts of poetry.
Usage notes
- Adjectives often applied to "beauty": natural, great, real, physical, exotic, inner, spiritual, strange, divine, visual, heavenly, intellectual, facial, attractive, sensuous, sensual, seductive, musical, austere, alluring, mathematical, geometric, astounding, bodily, pictorial.
Synonyms
- (property, quality): good-lookingness, gorgeousness, inspiration, loveliness, see Thesaurus:beauty
- (someone who is beautiful): belle, looker, good looker, see Thesaurus:beautiful person or Thesaurus:beautiful woman
- (something pleasing): gem, jewel
Antonyms
- (property, quality): repulsiveness, homeliness, ugliness
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Cebuano: byuti
Translations
See also
- usefulness
Interjection
beauty
- (Canada) Thanks!
- (Canada) Cool!
- It's the long weekend. Beauty!
Adjective
beauty (comparative more beauty, superlative most beauty)
- (Canada) Of high quality, well done.
- He made a beauty pass through the neutral zone.
Verb
beauty (third-person singular simple present beauties, present participle beautying, simple past and past participle beautied)
- (obsolete, transitive) To make beautiful.
Further reading
- beauty in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- beauty in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English beauty.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bju?.ti/
- Hyphenation: beau?ty
Noun
beauty f (plural beauty's, diminutive beauty'tje n)
- A beauty, looker, beautiful person
- A beautiful other creature or thing
- Human beauty, as the object or goal of cosmetics etc.
Synonyms
- schoonheid
- (beautiful thing only): juweeltje n, prachtexemplaar n
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goodlihead
English
Alternative forms
- goodlyhead
Etymology
From Middle English goodlihede, goodelyhede, equivalent to goodly +? -head.
Noun
goodlihead (uncountable)
- (obsolete) The character or nature of a goodly person; goodliness.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iii:
- But mote thy goodlyhed forgiue it mee, / To weet, which of the Gods I shall thee name, / That vnto thee due worship I may rightly frame.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iii:
- (archaic, poetic) Goodly appearance or looks; beauty.
- 1893, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, The Living Age ...:
- The lilies, of great goodlihead, divinely tall, sway with a stately, languid grace; the Canterbury bells are all ringing.
- 1943, Quintus (Smyrnaeus), Arthur Sanders Way, The Fall of Troy:
- Now, by the strength and fury of Hercules -- To whom in stature, might, and goodlihead Most like thou art I pray thee, have in mind Him, and resolve to match his deeds with thine.
- 1893, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, The Living Age ...:
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