noun (plural beauties)
1 [U] the quality of being pleasing to the senses or to the mind:
the beauty of the sunset / of poetry / of his singing * a woman of great beauty * The woods were designated an area of outstanding natural beauty. * beauty products / treatment (= intended to make a person more beautiful) * The sheer beauty of the scenery took my breath away.
2 [C] a person or thing that is beautiful:
She had been a beauty in her day.
3 [C] an excellent example of its type:
That last goal was a beauty!
4 [C] a pleasing feature
SYNADVANTAGE:
One of the beauties of living here is that it's so peaceful. * The project will require very little work to start up; that's the beauty of it.
IDIOMS
beauty is in the eye of the beholder (saying) people all have different ideas about what is beautiful
beauty is only skin-deep (saying) how sb looks is less important than their character
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for beauty is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does beauty appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — beauty appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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