BEAUTY


Meaning of BEAUTY in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ bju:ti ]

( beauties)

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

1.

Beauty is the state or quality of being beautiful.

...an area of outstanding natural beauty...

Everyone admired her elegance and her beauty.

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2.

A beauty is a beautiful woman. ( JOURNALISM )

She is known as a great beauty.

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3.

You can say that something is a beauty when you think it is very good. ( INFORMAL )

The pass was a real beauty, but the shot was poor.

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4.

The beauties of something are its attractive qualities or features. ( LITERARY )

He was beginning to enjoy the beauties of nature.

N-COUNT : usu pl , with supp

5.

Beauty is used to describe people, products, and activities that are concerned with making women look beautiful.

Additional beauty treatments can be booked in advance.

ADJ : ADJ n

6.

If you say that a particular feature is the beauty of something, you mean that this feature is what makes the thing so good.

There would be no effect on animals–that’s the beauty of such water-based materials.

= advantage

N-COUNT : usu the N of n

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