Beauty - Wiktionary

English

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Etymology

[edit] Etymology treeProto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der.?Proto-Italic *dwenosOld Latin duenosOld Latin duonusder.Old Latin *duenelosVulgar Latin bellusProto-Indo-European *-teh₂Proto-Indo-European *-tsProto-Indo-European *-teh₂tsProto-Italic *-tātsVulgar Latin -tāsVulgar Latin *bellitātemAnglo-Norman biautébor.Middle English beauteEnglish beauty

From Middle English bewty, bewte, beaute, bealte, from Anglo-Norman and Old French beauté (early Old French spelling biauté), from Vulgar Latin *bellitātem (“beauty”), from Latin bellus (“beautiful, fair”); see beau. In this sense, mostly displaced native Old English fæġernes, whence Modern English fairness.

Pronunciation

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbjuːti/
• (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbjuti/, [-ɾi]
• (Canada) IPA(key): [ˈbju̟ti], [ˈbju̟ːɾi], [ˈb(j)ɪu̯ɾ̥ɪ]

• Audio (General American):

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• (Norfolk) IPA(key): /ˈbuːti/
• Homophone: booty (Norfolk)
• Rhymes: -uːti
• Hyphenation: beau‧ty

Noun

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beauty (countable and uncountable, plural beauties)

1. (uncountable) The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness.
   • 1818, John Keats, “Book I”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: […] T[homas] Miller, […] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 3, lines 1–5:A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: / Its loveliness increases; it will never / Pass into nothingness; but still will keep / A bower quiet for us, and a sleep / Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:‘Say, hast thou seen enough!’ ‘I have looked on beauty, and I am blinded,’ I said hoarsely, lifting my hand to cover up my eyes.
   • 1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:Warwick's first glance had revealed the fact that the young woman was strikingly handsome, with a stately beauty seldom encountered.
   • 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 152:"The aviators didn't get him," Denham replied slowly. "What?" "It was Beauty. As always Beauty killed the Beast."
   • 1958 July, R. K. Kirkland, “Into the Mountains on the Festiniog Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 453:Much as one appreciates the beauty of these woodlands, it was good to learn that some discreet tree-felling may open up the view still further.
   • 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.
   • 2004 April 13, Nick Paton Walsh, “Ample Alyona shakes up Russian pageant”, in The Guardian‎[1]:The website calls a vote for Alyona a vote against "beauties who do not look natural and who cannot be distinguished from each other" and rails against the "imposed standards" of 90-60-90 vital statistics, and "cigarettes with out nicotine and coffee without caffeine".
3. (in the plural) Those aspects or elements that make someone or something beautiful.
   • 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page iii:There the roſy-finger'd Spring, by the liquid mirror of a cryſtalline pool, was attiring her fair daughters in ſeven-fold ornaments, while the love-whiſpering breezes ſtole kiſſes as they paſſed, and fanned their glowing beauties.
4. Something that is particularly good or pleasing. What a goal! That was a real beauty!
5. An excellent or egregious example of something. He got into a fight and ended up with two black eyes – two real beauties!
6. (with the definite article) The excellence or genius of a scheme or decision. The beauty of the deal is it costs nothing!
7. (particle physics, obsolete) A beauty quark (now called bottom quark).
8. Beauty treatment; cosmetology. a hair and beauty salon
   • 2013, Bethany Rooney, Mary Lou Belli, Directors Tell the Story, page 184:When the beauty team departs the set, the AD will say, “Let’s go on a bell.” A bell sounds throughout the stage, and […]
9. (obsolete) Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion.
   • 1653, Jeremy Taylor, “Twenty-five Sermons Preached at Golden Grove; Being for the Winter Half-year, […]: Sermon XVIII. [The Marriage Ring; or, The Mysteriousness and Duties of Marriage.] Part II.”, in Reginald Heber, editor, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, D.D. […], volume V, London: Ogle, Duncan, and Co. […]; and Richard Priestley, […], published 1822, →OCLC, page 277: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.
10. (archaic, in the plural) Beautiful passages or extracts of poetry.

Synonyms

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• (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

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• (antonym(s) of “property, quality”): repulsiveness, homeliness, ugliness

Derived terms

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• age before beauty
• antibeauty
• anti-beauty quark
• bathing beauty
• beaut
• beauteous
• beautician
• beautifiable
• beautification
• beautifier
• beautiful
• beautifully
• beautifulness
• beautify
• beautihood
• beautiless
• beautility
• beautiness
• beautisome
• beauty and the beast
• beautyberry
• beauty blender
• beauty bush
• beautybush
• beauty cake
• beauty contest
• beauty dish
• beautydom
• beauty factory
• beauty fades, dumb is forever
• beauty heart radish
• beauty is but skin-deep
• beauty is in the eye of the beer holder
• beauty is in the eye of the beholder
• beauty is only skin deep
• beautyless
• beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder
• beauty mark
• beauty-mark
• beautyness
• beauty pageant
• beauty parade
• beauty parlor
• beauty parlour
• beautypreneur
• beauty product
• beauty quark
• beauty queen
• beauty rest
• beauty salon
• beauty school
• beauty shop
• beauty shot
• beauty-sleep
• beauty sleep
• beauty spot
• beauty won't make the pot boil
• betel nut beauty
• bewdy
• black beauty
• Camberwell beauty
• Flemish beauty
• inner beauty
• K-beauty
• line of beauty
• meadow beauty
• nonbeauty
• outer beauty
• painted beauty
• plastic beauty
• Rutland beauty
• Sleeping Beauty
• sleeping beauty
• spring beauty
• unbeauty
• you beauty

Collocations

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• 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.

Descendants

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• → Cebuano: byuti

Translations

[edit] quality of pleasing appearance

Albanian: bukuri (sq) f Altai: Southern Altai: кӧркӱ (körkü) Arabic: جَمَال (ar) m (jamāl), زَيْن (ar) m (zayn) Egyptian Arabic: جمال m (gamāl) Moroccan Arabic: زين m (zayn), زين m (zīn) Aramaic: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܫܘܼܦܪܵܐ (šupra) Armenian: գեղեցկություն (hy) (geġecʻkutʻyun) Assamese: সুন্দৰতা (xundorota), সৌন্দৰ্য্য (xoundorzyo) Azerbaijani: gözəllik, hüsn (poetic) Bashkir: матурлыҡ (maturlıq) Belarusian: прыгажо́сць f (pryhažóscʹ), хараство́ n (xarastvó), краса́ f (krasá), прыгажо́сьць f (pryhažósʹcʹ) Bengali: সৌন্দর্য (bn) (śōundorjo), খুবসুরতী (bn) (khubsuroti), জামাল (bn) (jamal) Bulgarian: ху́бост (bg) f (húbost), красота́ (bg) f (krasotá), пре́лест (bg) f (prélest) Burmese: အလှတရား (a.hla.ta.ra:) Carpathian Rusyn: краса́ f (krasá) Catalan: bellesa (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 美麗 / 美丽 (zh) (měilì), 漂亮 (zh) (piàoliang), 美 (zh) (měi) Wu: 美 (5me) Coptic: ⲙⲛⲧⲥⲁⲉⲓⲉ (mntsaeie) Czech: krása (cs) f Danish: skønhed c Dutch: schoonheid (nl) f Egyptian: (nfrw) Esperanto: beleco, belo Estonian: ilu Farefare: sõŋa Finnish: kauneus (fi) French: beauté (fr) f Old French: biauté f Friulian: bielece f Galician: beleza (gl) f, fermosura f Georgian: სილამაზე (silamaze) German: Schönheit (de) f Greek: ομορφιά (el) f (omorfiá) Ancient Greek: κάλλος f (kállos) Hebrew: יופי / יֹפִי (he) m (yófi) Hindi: सौन्दर्य (saundarya), सुंदरता (hi) (sundartā), ख़ूबसूरती f (xūbsūrtī), हुस्न (hi) m (husna) Hungarian: szépség (hu) Iban: bajik Icelandic: fegurð (is) f Ido: beleso (io) Ingrian: käpehys Irish: áilleacht f, spéiriúlacht f, áille f, scéimh f, maise f, breáichte f Istriot: balissa f Italian: bellezza (it) f Japanese: 美しさ (ja) (うつくしさ, utsukushisa), (component) 美 (ja) (び, bi) Kazakh: әсемдік (äsemdık), сұлулық (sūlulyq) Korean: 아름다움 (ko) (areumdaum), 미(美) (ko) (mi) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: جوانی (ckb) (cwanî) Kyrgyz: сулуулук (ky) (suluuluk), кооздук (ky) (koozduk), көрүк (körük) Latin: pulchritūdō f, formōsitās f Latvian: daiļums m, skaistums m, glītums m Lithuanian: gražumas m, grožis (lt) m Low German: Schöönheit f Macedonian: уба́вина f (ubávina), красо́та f (krasóta), у́бост f (úbost) Malayalam: സൗന്ദര്യം (ml) (saundaryaṁ), മനോഹാരിത (ml) (manōhārita) Maltese: sbuħija f, ġmiel Manx: aalid m, aalinid, bwoyid m, stoamid Māori: rerehua, purotutanga Marathi: सौंदर्य n (saundarya), सुंदरता f (sundartā) Mongolian: Cyrillic: гоо үзэсгэлэн (goo üzesgelen), сайхан байдал (sajxan bajdal) Nheengatu: purangasawa Norman: bieauté f (Jersey) Norwegian: Bokmål: skjønnhet (no) m or f Nynorsk: venleik (nn) m, skjønnheit (nn) f Occitan: belesa (oc) f Old English: fægernes f Pannonian Rusyn: краса f (krasa), красота f (krasota) Pashto: ښکلا (ps) f (x̌kalā) Persian: Iranian Persian: زیبایی (fa) (zibâyi), جَمال (jamâl), حُسْن (hosn) Plautdietsch: Scheenheit f Polish: piękno (pl) n, uroda (pl) f, krasa f, pięknota f (archaic), krasota f (archaic) Portuguese: beleza (pt) f Prakrit: Maharastri Prakrit: 𑀭𑀽𑀅 (rūa) Punjabi: Gurmukhi: ਸੁੰਦਰਤਾ (pa) (sundratā) Romanian: frumusețe (ro) f Romansh: bellezza f (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader), bellezia f (Sursilvan), baleztgia f (Sutsilvan), balegia f (Sutsilvan), belezza f (Surmiran) Russian: красота́ (ru) f (krasotá), пре́лесть (ru) f (prélestʹ), краса́ (ru) f (krasá) (dated), лепота́ (ru) f (lepotá) (dated, poetic) Sanskrit: इन्दिरा (sa) f (indirā) Sardinian: bellesa f Scots: beauty, brawness Scottish Gaelic: àilleachd f, maise f, sgèimh f, bòidhchead f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: лепота f, красота f (poetic), бај m (poetic), дивота Latin: lepota (sh) f, krasota (sh) f (poetic), baj (sh) m (poetic), divota (sh) Sicilian: bidizza f Slovak: krása f Slovene: lepota (sl) f Somali: qurux Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: rědnosć f Spanish: belleza (es) f, hermosura (es) f, preciosidad (es) f, preciosura (es) f, beldad (es) f, lindeza (es) f, fermosura (es) f (disused) Sudovian: grozis m Swahili: urembo (sw), uzuri (sw), jamala (sw) Swedish: skönhet (sv) c, fägring (sv) c (poetic) Tagalog: ganda, kagandahan Tajik: зебоӣ (tg) (zeboyi), ҷамол (jamol), ҳусн (husn) Tamil: அழகு (ta) (aḻaku), எழில் (ta) (eḻil), சௌந்தரியம் (ta) (cauntariyam) Tarifit: aẓri Tatar: матурлык (tt) (maturlıq) Telugu: అందము (te) (andamu), చక్కదనము (te) (cakkadanamu) Thai: ความสวย (th) (kwaam-sǔai), ความสวยงาม (th) (kwaam-sǔai-ngaam) Tibetan: please add this translation if you can Turkish: güzellik (tr), hüsün (tr) Turkmen: gözellik Tuvan: чаражы (çarajı) Ukrainian: краса́ f (krasá), вро́да f (vróda) Urdu: خُوبْصُورْتی f (xūbsūrtī), حُسْن m (husn), جَمال m (jamāl), زَین f (zain) Uyghur: گۈزەللىك (güzellik) Uzbek: goʻzallik (uz) Venetan: bełeça f Vietnamese: đẹp (vi) Volapük: jön (vo) Votic: lustiuᴢ Welsh: harddwch m, prydferthwch m Yakut: кэрэ (kere) Yiddish: שיינקײַט f (sheynkayt)

someone beautiful: male

Belarusian: прыгажу́н m (pryhažún), красу́н m (krasún) Bulgarian: краса́вец (bg) m (krasávec) Chinese: Mandarin: 帥哥 / 帅哥 (zh) (shuàigē) Dutch: beauty (nl), schoonheid (nl), schone (nl) Esperanto: belulo Finnish: komistus (fi) German: (nominalized adjective) Schöner m Hindi: सुन्दर (hi) m (sundar) Japanese: 美少年 (ja) (びしょうねん, bishōnen), 美男 (ja) (びなん, binan), 美男子 (ja) (びだんし, bidanshi), 美青年 (ja) (びせいねん, biseinen), イケメン (ja) (いけめん, ikemen) Kazakh: сұлу (sūlu) Korean: 미소년(美少年) (ko) (misonyeon), 미남(美男) (ko) (minam) Latvian: skaistulis m Macedonian: у́бавец m (úbavec) Malayalam: സുന്ദരൻ (ml) (sundaraṉ) Nheengatu: purangasawa Okinawan: 清らー (ちゅらー, churā) Polish: urodziwiec m, przystojniak (pl) m Portuguese: beleza (pt) f Russian: краса́вец (ru) m (krasávec), краса́вчик (ru) m (krasávčik) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: лепотан m, љепотан m Latin: lepotan (sh) m, ljepotan (sh) m Slovene: lepotec m Spanish: guapo (es) m Tagalog: gwapo Tamil: அழகன் (ta) (aḻakaṉ) Telugu: అందగాడు (te) (andagāḍu) Turkish: Ottoman Turkish: كوزل (güzel, gözel) Ukrainian: кра́сень m (krásenʹ), красу́нь m (krasúnʹ), вродли́вець m (vrodlývecʹ), хорошу́н (uk) m (xorošún), гарню́к m (harnjúk) Volapük: (♂♀) jönan, (♂) hijönan

someone beautiful: female

Arabic: حَسْنَاء (ar) f (ḥasnāʔ), جَمِيلَة f (jamīla), غَانِيَة f (ḡāniya) Armenian: գեղեցկուհի (hy) (geġecʻkuhi) Belarusian: прыгажу́ня f (pryhažúnja), красу́ня f (krasúnja), кра́ля f (králja) Bengali: সুন্দরী (bn) (śundori) Bulgarian: краса́вица (bg) f (krasávica) Catalan: bellesa (ca) f Chinese: Cantonese: 美人 (mei5 jan4), 美女 (yue) (mei5 neoi5) Mandarin: 美人 (zh) (měirén), 美女 (zh) (měinǚ) Czech: kráska (cs) f, krasavice (cs) f Danish: skønhed c Dutch: schoonheid (nl), schone (nl) f Esperanto: belulino Finnish: kaunokainen (fi), kaunotar (fi) French: beauté (fr) f Georgian: მზეთუნახავი (mzetunaxavi) German: Schönheit (de) f, Schöne (de) f (nominalized adjective) Greek: καλλονή (el) f (kalloní) Hebrew: יְפֵהפִיָה f (yfēfiyá) Hindi: सुन्दरी (hi) f (sundarī) Hungarian: szépség (hu) Interlingua: beltate (ia) Irish: ainnir f, bé f, spéirbhean f Italian: bellezza (it) f Japanese: 美人 (ja) (びじん, bijin), 美女 (ja) (びじょ, bijo), 別嬪 (ja) (べっぴん, beppin) (dated) Kazakh: сұлу (sūlu), ару (aru) Korean: 미인(美人) (ko) (miin), 미녀(美女) (ko) (minyeo) Latvian: skaistule f, daiļava f Lithuanian: gražuolė f Macedonian: уба́вица f (ubávica) Malayalam: സുന്ദരി (ml) (sundari) Nheengatu: purangasawa Norwegian: Bokmål: skjønnhet (no) m or f Nynorsk: skjønnheit (nn) f Okinawan: 清らー (ちゅらー, churā), 清ら影 (ちゅらかーぎー, churakāgī) Okinoerabu: 清ら女 (ちゅらうなぐ, churaunagu) Pannonian Rusyn: красавица f (krasavica), красотка f (krasotka) Polish: piękność (pl) f, krasawica (pl) f (archaic), laska (pl) f (low colloquial) Portuguese: beleza (pt) f, beldade (pt) f Punjabi: ਸੁੰਦਰੀ (pa) f (sudarī) Romanian: frumusețe (ro) f Russian: краса́вица (ru) f (krasávica), красо́тка (ru) f (krasótka), кра́ля (ru) f (králja) (low colloquial) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: лепотица f, љепотица f, лепојка f, љепојка f Latin: lepotica (sh) f, ljepotica (sh) f, lepojka f, ljepojka (sh) f Slovak: kráska f, krásavica f Slovene: lepotica f Spanish: guapa (es) f, belleza (es) f Swedish: skönhet (sv) c Tamil: அழகி (ta) (aḻaki) Turkish: Ottoman Turkish: كوزل (güzel, gözel) Ukrainian: красу́ня f (krasúnja), вродли́виця f (vrodlývycja), красу́ха f (krasúxa), кра́ля (uk) f (králja), хорошу́ля f (xorošúlja) Vietnamese: mỹ nhân (vi) (美人), mỹ nữ (vi), mĩ nữ Volapük: (♂♀) jönan, (♀) jijönan Yoron: めーらび (mērabi)

something particularly good or pleasing

Bulgarian: красота́ (bg) f (krasotá) Chinese: Mandarin: 美 (zh) (měi) Czech: krása (cs) f Dutch: juweeltje (nl) n, prachtexemplaar (nl) n Finnish: kaunokainen (fi) German: Prachtstück (de) n Latvian: skaistulis m, skaistums m Malayalam: മനോഹരം (ml) (manōharaṁ), സുന്ദരം (ml) (sundaraṁ) Polish: piękność (pl) f Portuguese: beleza (pt) f Russian: конфе́тка (ru) f (konfétka) Spanish: belleza (es) f Tamil: அழகு (ta) (aḻaku)

excellent or egregious example of something excellence or genius

Dutch: (please verify) het mooie (nl) n Finnish: kauneus (fi) Hungarian: szépség (hu) Tamil: அழகு (ta) (aḻaku), சிறப்பு (ta) (ciṟappu)

beauty quark — see bottom quark beauty treatment — see cosmetology prevailing style or taste

Finnish: kauneusihanne

beautiful passages or extracts of poetry The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations. Translations to be checked

French: (please verify) beauté (fr) f Hebrew: (please verify) יופי (he) m (yofi) Scottish Gaelic: (please verify) maise f, (please verify) brèaghachd f, (please verify) bòidhchead f, (please verify) grinneas m, (please verify) sgèimh f Serbo-Croatian: (please verify) ljepota (sh) f

See also

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• usefulness

Interjection

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beauty

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

Adjective

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beauty (comparative more beauty, superlative most beauty)

1. (Canada) Of high quality, well done. He made a beauty pass through the neutral zone.

Verb

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beauty (third-person singular simple present beauties, present participle beautying, simple past and past participle beautied)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To make beautiful.

Further reading

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• “beauty”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “beauty”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English beauty.

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /ˈbjuː.ti/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: beau‧ty

Noun

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beauty f (plural beauty's, diminutive beauty'tje n)

1. a beauty, looker, beautiful person
2. a beautiful other creature or thing Die prachtige hengst is al net zo'n beauty als z'n ruiterThat gorgeous stallion is as much of a beauty as his rider
3. human beauty, as the object or goal of cosmetics etc.

Synonyms

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