• IPA: /ˈbjuːti/
  • (America) IPA: /ˈbjuɾi/
• (Norfolk) IPA: /ˈbuːti/
• (Norfolk) homophones en

beauty

1. The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness.
   • 1818, John Keats, “Book I”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: Printed [by T. Miller] for Taylor and Hessey, […], OCLC 1467112 ↗, lines 1–5, page 3 ↗:

     A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: / Its loveliness increases; it will never / Pass into nothingness; but still will keep / A bower quiet for us, and a sleep / Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.

   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,

     Warwick's first glance had revealed the fact that the young woman was strikingly handsome, with a stately beauty seldom encountered.

   • 1988, "… beauty and recollection, like danger, glamour, greed, hunger- everything but disappointment and desire- were concepts belonging to other people.” -Second Son, Robert Ferro
2. Someone who is beautiful.

   Brigitte Bardot was a renowned beauty.

3. Something that is particularly good or pleasing.

   What a goal! That was a real beauty!

4. An excellent or egregious example of something.
5. (with the definite article) The excellence or genius of a scheme or decision.

   The beauty of the deal is it costs nothing!

6. (particle, obsolete) A beauty quark (now called bottom quark).
7. Beauty treatment; cosmetology.
8. (obsolete) Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion.

   • She stained her hair yellow, which was then the beauty.

9. (archaic, in the plural) Beautiful passages or extracts of poetry.

• (property, quality) good-lookingness, gorgeousness, inspiration, loveliness, seeSynonyms en
• (someone who is beautiful) belle, looker, good looker, seeSynonyms en
• (something pleasing) gem, jewel

• (property, quality) repulsiveness, homeliness, ugliness

• French: beauté
• German: Schönheit
• Italian: bellezza
• Portuguese: beleza
• Russian: красота́
• Spanish: belleza, hermosura, preciosidad, preciosura, beldad, lindeza

• German: (nominalized adjective) Schöner
• Portuguese: beleza
• Russian: краса́вец
• Spanish: guapo

• French: beauté
• German: Schönheit, Schöne (nominalized adjective)
• Italian: bellezza
• Portuguese: beleza, beldade
• Russian: краса́вица
• Spanish: guapa, belleza

• German: Prachtstück
• Portuguese: beleza
• Russian: конфе́тка
• Spanish: belleza

1. (Canada) Thanks!
2. (Canada) Cool!

   It's the long weekend. Beauty!

beauty

1. (Canada) Of high quality, well done.

   He made a beauty pass through the neutral zone.

beauty (beauties, present participle beautying; past and past participle beautied)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To make beautiful.