(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 ~.
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2.
A ~ is a beautiful woman. (JOURNALISM)
She is known as a great ~.
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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.
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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 ~ 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