different between beauty vs zest

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)

1. 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
2. Someone who is beautiful.

   Brigitte Bardot was a renowned beauty.

3. Something that is particularly good or pleasing.

   What a goal! That was a real beauty!

4. An excellent or egregious example of something.

   He got into a fight and ended up with two black eyes – two real beauties!

5. (with the definite article) The excellence or genius of a scheme or decision.

   The beauty of the deal is it costs nothing!

6. (physics, obsolete) A beauty quark (now called bottom quark).
7. Beauty treatment; cosmetology.
8. (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.

9. (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

1. (Canada) Thanks!
2. (Canada) Cool!

   It's the long weekend. Beauty!

Adjective

beauty (comparative more beauty, superlative most beauty)

1. (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)

1. (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)

1. A beauty, looker, beautiful person
2. A beautiful other creature or thing

3. Human beauty, as the object or goal of cosmetics etc.

Synonyms

• schoonheid
• (beautiful thing only): juweeltje n, prachtexemplaar n

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French zeste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /z?st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

zest (countable and uncountable, plural zests)

1. The outer skin of a citrus fruit, used as a flavouring or garnish.

   The orange zest gives the strong flavor in this dish.

2. General vibrance of flavour.

   I add zest to the meat by rubbing it with a spice mixture before grilling.

   • 1959, Peter De Vries, The Tents of Wickedness, Boston: Little, Brown & Co., “The Treehouse,” Chapter 7, p. 92,^[1]

     He rolled his own cigarettes from a sack of Bull Durham, spilling flakes into his beer, which no doubt gained in zest thereby.

   • 1978, Joseph Singer et al. (translators), Shosha by Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York: Fawcett Crest, Part One, Chapter Five, 1, p. 99,^[2]

     Bashele’s dishes tasted as good as they had when I was a child. No one could give to the borscht such a sweet-and-sour zest as Bashele.

3. (by extension) Enthusiasm; keen enjoyment; relish; gusto.

   Auntie Mame had a real zest for life.

   • 1728, Edward Young, Love of Fame, the Universal Passion, Satire II in The Works of the Reverend Edward Young, London: P. Brown, H. Hill & S. Payne, 1765, Volume I, p. 85,^[3]

     Almighty vanity! to thee they owe

     Their zest of pleasure, and their balm of woe.

   • 1807, Thomas Cogan, An Ethical Treatise on the Passions, Bath: Hazard & Binns, Part 1, Disquisition 1, Chapter 1, Section 1 “On the utility of the Passions and Affections,” p. 51,^[4]

     Liberality of disposition and conduct gives the highest zest and relish to social intercourse.

   • 1928, D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, New York: Barnes & Noble, 1995, Chapter 9, p. 101,^[5]

     Once started, Mrs. Bolton was better than any book, about the lives of the people. She knew them all so intimately, and had such a peculiar, flamey zest in all their affairs, it was wonderful, if just a trifle humiliating to listen to her.

   • 1962, James Baldwin, Another Country, New York: Dell, 1963, Book Two, Chapter 2, p. 221,^[6]

     The singers, male and female, wore blue jeans and long hair and had more zest than talent.
4. (rare) The woody, thick skin enclosing the kernel of a walnut.
   • 2006, N. J. Nusha, On the Edge (Short Stories), Lahore: Sang-e-Meel Publications, p. 85,

     The green zest of walnuts was used by the women to shine their teeth and it also gave a beautiful rust colour to their lips.

Synonyms

• (enthusiasm): gusto, relish
• (general vibrance of flavour): punch, spice, tang, zing

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

zest (third-person singular simple present zests, present participle zesting, simple past and past participle zested)

1. (cooking) To scrape the zest from a fruit.
2. To make more zesty.
   • 1792, James Cobb, The Siege of Belgrade, a Comic Opera, in Three Acts, page 47:

     Strains ?o artle?s tho’ we proffer,
     Hearts o’er flowing zest the offer.

Derived terms

• zester

References

Anagrams

• Tsez

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /z?st/

Noun

zest m (plural zests)

1. zest (of a fruit)

Further reading

• “zest” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Swedish

Noun

zest c

1. zest; the outer skin of a citrus fruit

Declension