Meaning

1 senses

  1. To act as a beau (towards); to court or woo.

Examples

3 sentences

  1. Her loquacious new beau was there, talking everyone's heads off.

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  2. He's her beau now.

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  3. "Oh, hey look! There's Tom's new beau."

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Origin

From Middle English beau, beu, bew, bewe, from Old French beau, from Latin bellus (“beauti

From Middle English beau, beu, bew, bewe, from Old French beau, from Latin bellus (“beautiful”). Doublet of bello and boo.

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Forms

beaus, beauing, beaued, beaued
Base formbeau · to beau
3rd person singularbeaus
Present participlebeauing
Past simplebeaued
Past participlebeaued

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybeau
he, she, itbeaus

Past simpleLesson

all personsbeaued

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave beaued
he, she, ithas beaued

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill beau

Synonyms

14 synonyms
romanceA2addressB1courtA2solicitC2sparkB2wooC1put the moves onbedearchase afterendearmake lovepitch woomake a move (on)

Word family

1 related words
RelatedbeautifulA1

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
beaterbeatingbeatitudebeatnikbeauticianbeautifulA1beautifullyB1

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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