BEAUTY


Meaning of BEAUTY in English

(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 ~...

Everyone admired her elegance and her ~.

N-UNCOUNT

2.

A ~ is a beautiful woman. (JOURNALISM)

She is known as a great ~.

N-COUNT

3.

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

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

N-COUNT

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 ~ treatments can be booked in advance.

ADJ: ADJ n

6.

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

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

= advantage

N-COUNT: usu the N of n

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