different between belle vs beast

English

Etymology

From French belle (“beautiful”), from Latin bella.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?l/

Noun

belle (plural belles)

1. An attractive woman.

   In her new dress she felt like the belle of the ball.

2. A fellow gay man.

Translations

See also

References

• belle at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Lebel

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

belle

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of bellen

French

Etymology

From Old French bele, from Latin bella(m), feminine of bellus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?l/
• Homophones: bel, belles

Adjective

belle

1. feminine singular of beau

Derived terms

Descendants

• English: belle
• English: Belle

Noun

belle f (plural belles)

1. beautiful woman, belle, beauty
2. (Louisiana) girlfriend

Derived terms

• Belle au bois dormant
• se faire la belle

Coordinate terms

(girlfriend):

• beau
• blonde
• femme
• gars
• homme

Further reading

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

German

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?l?

Verb

belle

1. inflection of bellen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Interlingua

Adjective

belle (comparative plus belle, superlative le plus belle)

1. beautiful

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?lle

Adjective

belle

1. feminine plural of bello

Noun

belle f

1. plural of bella

Latin

Etymology

From bellus (“pretty, handsome”)

Adverb

bell? (comparative bellius, superlative bellissim?)

1. well, neatly, perfectly
2. prettily, delightfully

Related terms

• bellus
• bonus

References

• belle in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• belle in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• belle in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• belle in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Norman

Pronunciation

Adjective

belle

1. feminine singular of bieau
2. feminine singular of biau

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *bell?, from Proto-Germanic *bell?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bel.le/, [?be?.?e]

Noun

belle f

1. bell
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "St. Benedict, Abbot"

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: belle
  • Scots: bell
  • English: bell
    • ? Fiji Hindi: belo
    • ? Japanese: ?? (beru)

Turkish

Verb

belle

1. second-person singular imperative of bellemek

English

Alternative forms

• beest (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English beeste, beste, from Old French beste (French bête), from Latin b?stia (“animal, beast”); many cognates – see b?stia.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /bi?st/
• Rhymes: -i?st

Noun

beast (plural beasts)

1. Any animal other than a human; usually only applied to land vertebrates, especially large or dangerous four-footed ones.
2. (more specific) A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal.

   • Boxer was an enormous beast, nearly eighteen hands high, and as strong as any two ordinary horses put together.
3. A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner.
4. (slang) Anything regarded as larger or more powerful than one of its normal size or strength.

   That is a beast of a stadium.

   The subwoofer that comes with this set of speakers is a beast.

5. (slang) Someone who is particularly impressive, especially athletically or physically.
6. (prison slang, derogatory) A sex offender.
   • 1994, Elaine Player, Michael Jenkins, Prisons After Woolf: Reform Through Riot (page 190)

     Shouts had been heard: 'We're coming to kill you, beasts.' In desperation, Rule 43s had tried to barricade their doors […]
7. (figuratively) Something unpleasant and difficult.
   • 2000, Tom Clancy, The Bear and the Dragon, Berkley (2001), ?ISBN, page 905:

     […] Even unopposed, the natural obstacles are formidable, and defending his line of advance will be a beast of a problem."

   • 2006, Heather Burt, Adam's Peak, Dundurn Press (2006), ?ISBN, page 114:

     He'd be in the hospital a few days — broken collarbone, a cast on his arm, a beast of a headache — but fine.

8. A thing or matter, especially a difficult or unruly one.

Derived terms

• beastly
• minibeast
• saddle beast
• beast of burden

Related terms

• bestial
• bestiary

Translations

See also

• belluine (suppletive adjective)

Derived terms

Related terms

Verb

beast (third-person singular simple present beasts, present participle beasting, simple past and past participle beasted)

1. (Britain, military) to impose arduous exercises, either as training or as punishment.

Adjective

beast (comparative more beast, superlative most beast)

1. (slang, chiefly Midwestern and northeastern US) great; excellent; powerful
   • 1999, "Jason Chue", AMD K6-2 350mhz, FIC VA503+, LGS 64mb PC100 sdram (on newsgroup jaring.pcbase)

     There is another type from Siemens which is the HYB 39S64XXX(AT/ATL) -8B version (notice the "B" and the end) which is totally beast altogether.

Anagrams

• Bates, Sebat, abets, baste, bates, beats, besat, betas, esbat, tabes

Middle English

Noun

beast

1. Alternative form of beeste