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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
Sarah Bernhardt

Meaning of "beauty" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD BEAUTY

From Old French biauté, from biau beautiful.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF BEAUTY

beauty  [ˈbjuːtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BEAUTY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Beauty can act as a noun and an exclamation.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

Exclamation is an expression or voice that reflects an emotion or exaltation.

WHAT DOES BEAUTY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Beauty

Beauty is a characteristic of a person, animal, place, object, or idea that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure or satisfaction. Beauty is studied as part of aesthetics, sociology, social psychology, and culture. An "ideal beauty" is an entity which is admired, or possesses features widely attributed to beauty in a particular culture, for perfection. The experience of "beauty" often involves an interpretation of some entity as being in balance and harmony with nature, which may lead to feelings of attraction and emotional well-being. Because this can be a subjective experience, it is often said that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder." There is evidence that perceptions of beauty are evolutionarily determined, that things, aspects of people and landscapes considered beautiful are typically found in situations likely to give enhanced survival of the perceiving human's genes.

Definition of beauty in the English dictionary

The first definition of beauty in the dictionary is the combination of all the qualities of a person or thing that delight the senses and please the mind. Other definition of beauty is a very attractive and well-formed girl or woman. Beauty is also an outstanding example of its kind.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BEAUTY


agouti
əˈɡuːtɪ
aguti
əˈɡuːtɪ
autocutie
ˈɔːtəʊˌkjuːtɪ
bootie
ˈbuːtɪ
booty
ˈbuːtɪ
cootie
ˈkuːtɪ
cutey
ˈkjuːtɪ
cutie
ˈkjuːtɪ
Djibouti
dʒɪˈbuːtɪ
duty
ˈdjuːtɪ
fluty
ˈfluːtɪ
fruity
ˈfruːtɪ
hooty
ˈhuːtɪ
Jibuti
dʒɪˈbuːtɪ
off-duty
ˌɒfˈdjuːtɪ
rooty
ˈruːtɪ
snooty
ˈsnuːtɪ
tofutti
təʊˈfuːtɪ
tutti-frutti
ˈtuːtɪˈfruːtɪ
zooty
ˈzuːtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BEAUTY

beautiful hook-tip
beautiful people
beautifully
beautifulness
beautify
beauty competition
beauty contest
beauty cream
beauty editor
beauty pageant
beauty parlour
beauty preparations
beauty queen
beauty salon
beauty shop
beauty sleep
beauty specialist
beauty spot
beauty therapist
beauty treatment

WORDS THAT END LIKE BEAUTY

active duty
age before beauty
Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
bathing beauty
Camberwell beauty
countervailing duty
customs duty
deputy
estate duty
heavy-duty
import duty
in the line of duty
jury duty
off duty
on duty
pouty
shouty
spring beauty
stamp duty
you beauty

Synonyms and antonyms of beauty in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «BEAUTY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «beauty» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of beauty

Translation of «beauty» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BEAUTY

Find out the translation of beauty to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of beauty from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «beauty» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

美景
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

belleza
570 millions of speakers

English

beauty
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सुंदरता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

جَمال
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

красота
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

beleza
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সৌন্দর্য
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

beauté
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kecantikan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Schönheit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

美しさ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

미인
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kaendahan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

vẻ đẹp
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அழகு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सौंदर्य
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

güzellik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

bellezza
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

piękność
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

краса
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

frumusețe
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ομορφιά
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

skoonheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

skönhet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

skjønnhet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of beauty

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BEAUTY»

The term «beauty» is very widely used and occupies the 938 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BEAUTY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «beauty» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «beauty» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about beauty

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10 QUOTES WITH «BEAUTY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word beauty.
1
George Matthew Adams
What is more beautiful than a sea of water with a number of white-winged boats skirting its surface? Poetry and beauty contesting with the wind and the waves!
2
Dante Alighieri
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.
3
Dale Archer
Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are.
4
Kathy Baker
I worry about my face not having expression. I've never been known for glamour, so it's probably easier for me than it is for someone who has been known for her incredible beauty and glamour. I always wanted to be Geraldine Page, who was just a fabulous actress with just a nice, normal, expressive face.
5
Sarah Bernhardt
The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
6
Halle Berry
Beauty is not just physical.
7
Fanny Brice
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
8
Joseph Brodsky
What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.
9
Edmund Burke
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
10
Daniel Burnham
Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BEAUTY»

Discover the use of beauty in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to beauty and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Lauren Conrad Beauty
"A beauty guide with tips on hair, makeup and beauty in general by celebrity Lauren Conrad"--
Lauren Conrad, 2012
2
Thing of Beauty
Drawing on hundreds of interviews with Gia's gamily, lovers, friends, and colleagues, Thing of Beauty creates a poignant portrait of an unforgettable character—and a powerful narrative about beauty and sexuality, fame and objectification, ...
Stephen Fried, 2011
3
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Ma6 4-July 31, 2011.
Alexander McQueen, 2011
4
Beauty
Unhappy about his parents splitting up and moving with his mother to Grandpa's farm, eleven-year-old Luke finds comfort in riding and caring for a horse named Beauty.
Bill Wallace, 2007
5
Pricing Beauty: The Making of a Fashion Model
An original contribution to the sociology of work in the new cultural economy, Pricing Beauty offers rich, accessible analysis of the invisible ways in which gender, race, and class shape worth in the marketplace.
Ashley Mears, 2011
6
Beauty Therapy Fact File
Updated to cover new trends, this title includes all underpinning knowledge for the skills you will need in your practice as a beauty therapist.
Susan Cressy, 2004
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Bobbi Brown Beauty Rules: Fabulous Looks, Beauty Essentials, ...
From best-selling author and famed makeup artist Bobbi Brown comes this definitive beauty book empowering teens and twenty-somethings with age-appropriate makeup tips, style secrets, and self-esteem boosters.
Bobbi Brown, 2010
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Beauty
Traveling to New Hampshire to paint a portrait of novelist Leland Crompton, Alix Miller finds a man hideously deformed by a rare genetic disease, but as she spends hours working on the portrait, she discovers the magnificent man inside the ...
Susan Wilson, 1997
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Beauty Pays: Why Attractive People Are More Successful
The first book to seriously measure the advantages of beauty, Beauty Pays demonstrates how society favors the beautiful and how better-looking people experience startling but undeniable benefits in all aspects of life.
Daniel S. Hamermesh, 2011
10
Beauty
In this work, James Kirwan provides a concise history of the concept of beauty as a distinct aesthetic experience (marginalized by the rise of philosophical aesthetics in the 20th century) and offers an answer to the age-old question of ...
James Kirwan, 1999

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BEAUTY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term beauty is used in the context of the following news items.
1
What Does the Future of Beauty Look Like?
Between LED face masks that look like something out of Tron and shots that dissolve cellulite, the beauty industry has hurled itself into the ... «Allure Magazine, Jul 15»
2
Maria Sharapova's 5 Wimbledon Beauty Essentials for On and Off …
Which is to say if these five essentials can get the Russian tennis star and budding beauty entrepreneur—who became the co-owner of the ... «Vogue.com, Jul 15»
3
Tresscove App Allows Users To Make Their Own Beauty Tutorials
When crowdsourcing beauty tutorials, there are several go-to outlets: YouTube, beauty magazines, blogs and even platforms like Pinterest and ... «iDigitalTimes.com, Jul 15»
4
Fashion Blogger Kim Jones Is Apparently a Beauty Junkie
In the video above, she shows us a beauty secret or two inside her gorgeously lit bathroom—with a ginormous walk-in closet! Skincare «Inquirer.net, Jul 15»
5
This Trendy Food Is Now a Trendy Beauty Ingredient
Remember when you pronounced quinoa “kwin-oh-a”? (We do: It was 2006.) Now the grain has made its way into beauty aisles—and not just ... «Allure Magazine, Jul 15»
6
Best 4th Of July Beauty Looks — Demi Lovato, Miley Cyrus & More
... all celebrated the 4th of July in special ways, but they all looked gorgeous nonetheless. Do you like these ladies' Independence Day beauty? «Hollywood Life, Jul 15»
7
Cara Santana ditches the make-up to let her natural beauty shine on …
Cara Santana ditches the make-up to let her natural beauty shine on gym trip. By Christine Rendon for MailOnline. Published: 12:06 EST, ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
8
The 22 Best Green Beauty Products of 2015
For ELLE's ninth annual eco awards, 30 hair, makeup, and skin pros weigh in on the natural wonders of the beauty world, from a blush that's a ... «Elle.com, Jul 15»
9
Miss Universe Paulina Vega Criticizes Donald Trump; Presidential …
CTRL-C or CMD-C, then press Enter. Click/tap elsewhere to exit, or press ESC. PHOTOS: Beauty pageant scandals · J Balvin, Donald Trump ... «E! Online, Jul 15»
10
Disney World's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Actor Dies in Freak …
Devon Staples, who portrayed a range of Disney characters including BEAUTY AND THE BEAST's 'Gaston' at Orlando's Walt Disney World, ... «Broadway World, Jul 15»

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