beauty
Meanings
noun
- The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness.
- Someone who is beautiful.
- Those aspects or elements that make someone or something beautiful.
- Something that is particularly good or pleasing.
- An excellent or egregious example of something.
- The excellence or genius of a scheme or decision.
- A beauty quark (now called bottom quark).
- Beauty treatment; cosmetology.
- Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion.
- Beautiful passages or extracts of poetry.
intj
- Thanks!
- Cool!
adj
- Of high quality, well done.
verb
- To make beautiful.
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der.? Proto-Italic *dwenos Old Latin duenos Old Latin duonusder. Old Latin *duenelos Vulgar Latin bellus Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Vulgar Latin -tās Vulgar Latin *bellitātem Anglo-Norman biautébor. Middle English beaute English 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.
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