beauty

Etymology
From, , , , from and  (early Old French spelling ), from , from ; see. In this sense, mostly displaced native, whence Modern English.

Noun

 * 1)  The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness.
 * 2) * 1988, "… beauty and recollection, like danger, glamour, greed, hunger- everything but disappointment and desire- were concepts belonging to other people.” -Second Son, Robert Ferro
 * 3)  Someone who is beautiful.
 * 4)  Those aspects or elements that make someone or something beautiful.
 * 5) Something that is particularly good or pleasing.
 * 6) An excellent or egregious example of something.
 * 7)  The excellence or genius of a scheme or decision.
 * 8)  A beauty quark (now called bottom quark).
 * 9) Beauty treatment; cosmetology.
 * 10)  Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion.
 * 11)  Beautiful passages or extracts of poetry.
 * 1) An excellent or egregious example of something.
 * 2)  The excellence or genius of a scheme or decision.
 * 3)  A beauty quark (now called bottom quark).
 * 4) Beauty treatment; cosmetology.
 * 5)  Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion.
 * 6)  Beautiful passages or extracts of poetry.
 * 1) Beauty treatment; cosmetology.
 * 2)  Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion.
 * 3)  Beautiful passages or extracts of poetry.
 * 1)  Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion.
 * 2)  Beautiful passages or extracts of poetry.
 * 1)  Beautiful passages or extracts of poetry.

Collocations

 * 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.

Translations

 * Arabic: ,
 * Egyptian Arabic: جمال
 * Moroccan Arabic: زين, زين
 * Aramaic:
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܫܘܼܦܪܵܐ
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:, hüsn
 * Belarusian: прыгажо́сць, хараство́, краса́
 * Bengali:, খুবসুরতী,
 * Berber: aẓři, aẓli, tiẓilt
 * Bulgarian:, ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Wu: 美
 * Coptic: ⲙⲛⲧⲥⲁⲉⲓⲉ
 * Czech:
 * Danish: skønhed
 * Dutch:
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto: belo
 * Estonian: ilu
 * Farefare: sõŋa
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: bielece
 * Galician:, fermosura
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: κάλλος
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: सौन्दर्य,, ख़ूबसूरती,
 * Hungarian:
 * Iban: bajik
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Ingrian: käpehys
 * Irish: áilleacht, spéiriúlacht, áille, scéimh, maise, breáichte
 * Istriot: balissa
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: جوانی
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Latin: pulchritūdō, formōsitās
 * Latvian: daiļums, skaistums, glītums
 * Lithuanian: gražumas,
 * Low German: Schöönheit
 * Macedonian: уба́вина, красо́та, у́бост
 * Maharastri Prakrit: 𑀭𑀽𑀅
 * Malayalam: ,
 * Maltese: sbuħija
 * Manx: aalid, aalinid, bwoyid, stoamid
 * Maori: rerehua
 * Marathi: सौंदर्य, सुंदरता
 * Mongolian: гоо үзэсгэлэн, сайхан байдал
 * Nheengatu: purangasawa
 * Norman: bieauté
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: ,
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: fægernes
 * Old French: biauté
 * Persian:, , ,
 * Plautdietsch: Scheenheit
 * Polish:, , krasa, pięknota , krasota
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: bellezza, bellezia , baleztgia , balegia , belezza
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Sardinian: bellesa
 * Scots: beauty, brawness
 * Scottish Gaelic: àilleachd, maise, sgèimh, bòidhchead
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: лепота, красота, бај , дивота
 * Roman:, ,  ,
 * Sicilian: bidizza
 * Slovak: krása
 * Slovene:
 * Somali: qurux
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: rědnosć
 * Spanish:, , preciosidad, preciosura, ,
 * Sudovian: grozis
 * Swahili:, ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: ganda, kagandahan
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil:, ,
 * Telugu: ,
 * Thai: ,
 * Tibetan:
 * Turkish:
 * Tuvan: чаражы
 * Ukrainian: краса́, вро́да
 * Urdu: خوبصورتی
 * Uyghur: گۈزەللىك
 * Venetian: bełézsa
 * Volapük:
 * Votic: ilozuz
 * Welsh: harddwch, prydferthwch
 * Yiddish: שיינקײַט


 * Belarusian: прыгажу́н, красу́н
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: belulo
 * Finnish:
 * German: Schöner
 * Hindi:
 * Japanese: 美少年,, , ,
 * Kazakh: сұлу
 * Korean: ,
 * Latvian: skaistulis
 * Macedonian: у́бавец
 * Malayalam:
 * Nheengatu: purangasawa
 * Okinawan: 清らー
 * Polish: urodziwiec,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: лепотан, љепотан
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovene: lepotec
 * Spanish:
 * Tagalog: gwapo
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu:
 * Ukrainian: кра́сень, красу́нь, вродли́вець,, гарню́к
 * Volapük: jönan,  hijönan


 * Arabic:, جَمِيلَة, غَانِيَة
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: прыгажу́ня, красу́ня, кра́ля
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: skønhed
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: belulino
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: მზეთუნახავი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: יְפֵהפִיָה
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Interlingua:
 * Irish: ainnir, bé, spéirbhean
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Kazakh: сұлу, ару
 * Korean: ,
 * Latvian: skaistule, daiļava
 * Lithuanian: gražuolė
 * Macedonian: уба́вица
 * Malayalam:
 * Nheengatu: purangasawa
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk:
 * Okinawan: 清らー, 清ら影
 * Okinoerabu: 清ら女
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: лепотица, љепотица, лепојка, љепојка
 * Roman:, , lepojka,
 * Slovak: kráska, krásavica
 * Slovene: lepotica
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil:
 * Ukrainian: красу́ня, вродли́виця, красу́ха,, хорошу́ля
 * Vietnamese: (美人),
 * Volapük: jönan,  jijönan
 * Yoron: めーらび


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Latvian: skaistulis, skaistums
 * Malayalam: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Tamil: தலைசிறந்த


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:


 * Finnish: kauneusihanne


 * French:
 * Hebrew:
 * Scottish Gaelic:, , , ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:

Interjection

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

Adjective

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

Verb

 * 1)  To make beautiful.

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) A beauty, looker, beautiful person
 * 2) A beautiful other creature or thing
 * 3) Human beauty, as the object or goal of cosmetics etc.
 * 1) Human beauty, as the object or goal of cosmetics etc.