beauty
The quality of being attractive, pleasing, fine or good-lookingThe quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness.
» Truth is more important than beauty.
Die Wahrheit ist wichtiger als Schönheit.
Правда важнее красоты.
Правда важливіша за красу.
Meaning
10 senses(uncountable)The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness.
1988, "… beauty and recollection, like danger, glamour, greed, hunger- everything but disappointment and desire- were concepts belonging to other people.” -Second Son, Robert Ferro
Schönheit
красота́krasotá, пре́лестьprélestʹ, краса́krasá
краса́krasá, вро́даvróda
a very attractive or seductive looking woman
(countable, uncountable)Someone who is beautiful.
Brigitte Bardot was a renowned beauty.
Schöner, Schönheit, Schöne
краса́вецkrasávec, краса́вчикkrasávčik, краса́вицаkrasávica
кра́сеньkrásenʹ, красу́ньkrasúnʹ, вродли́вецьvrodlývecʹ
(countable, in the plural, uncountable)Those aspects or elements that make someone or something beautiful.
(countable, uncountable)Something that is particularly good or pleasing.
What a goal! That was a real beauty!
Prachtstück
конфе́ткаkonfétka
(countable, uncountable)An excellent or egregious example of something.
He got into a fight and ended up with two black eyes – two real beauties!
an outstanding example of its kind
(countable, uncountable)The excellence or genius of a scheme or decision.
The beauty of the deal is it costs nothing!
(countable, uncountable)Beauty treatment; cosmetology.
a hair and beauty salon
(countable, obsolete, particle, uncountable)A beauty quark (now called bottom quark).
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion.
(archaic, countable, in the plural, uncountable)Beautiful passages or extracts of poetry.
Examples
840 sentencesTruth is more important than beauty.
Правда важливіша за красу. — deniko
ruПравда важнее красоты. — odexed
deDie Wahrheit ist wichtiger als Schönheit. — pne
She has no sense of beauty.
У неї відсутнє відчуття прекрасного. — anastasishko
ruЕй недостаёт чуткости к красоте. — shanghainese
deSie hat keinen Sinn für das Schöne. — al_ex_an_der
She is a beauty.
Вона красуня. — shanghainese
ruОна красавица. — al_ex_an_der
deSie ist eine hübsche Frau. — al_ex_an_der
She is a real beauty.
Вона справжня красуня. — deniko
ruОна настоящая красавица. — FeuDRenais
She participated in the beauty contest.
Вона взяла участь у конкурсі краси. — aandrusiak
ruОна приняла участие в конкурсе красоты. — tony
deSie nahm an einem Schönheitswettbewerb teil. — xtofu80
Translations
9 languagesBy meaning 3
By meaning 4
By meaning 4
Origin
From Middle English bewty, bewte, beaute, bealte, from Anglo-Norman and Old French beautéFrom 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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Forms
plural: beautiesSynonyms
27 synonymsAntonyms
3 antonymsWord family
54 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
Collocations
5 patterns- beauty contest
- a beauty contest
- a real beauty
- real beauty
- is a beauty