# beauty

Pronunciation: say "BYOO-tee" US /ˈbjuti/, UK /ˈbjuːti/

## Noun

1. The quality or features that make someone or something attractive and pleasing, especially to look at.
   - Simple: The quality of being very nice to look at, or the things that make someone or something lovely.
   - _The beauty of the old cathedral drew visitors from across the country._
   - _Critics praised the painting for its quiet, understated beauty._
2. The practice or business of cosmetic treatment and care of personal appearance.
   - Simple: The work of making people look better with makeup and skin care.
   - _She built a long career in beauty, specializing in skin care._
   - _The college offers diplomas in beauty alongside its hairdressing courses._
3. An especially fine or outstanding example of something, sometimes used ironically of something remarkably bad.
   - Simple: A very good example of something. Sometimes said as a joke about something very bad.
   - _The carpenter handed me a beauty of a chest, smooth on every edge._
   - _Of all the houses we toured, that little cottage was a beauty._
4. A person who is strikingly beautiful.
   - Simple: A person who is very pretty or good-looking.
   - _He married a renowned beauty whose portrait still hangs in the hall._
   - _Photographers chased the rising beauty from one event to the next._
5. A particularly good or advantageous feature of something.
   - Simple: A very good thing about something that makes it useful or pleasing.
   - _The beauty of the strategy lay entirely in its simplicity._
   - _Investors admired the beauty of a deal that protected both sides at once._

## Adjective

6. Of high quality; excellently done or made. *(Canada)*
   - Simple: Very good or very well done.
   - _She played a beauty pass that split the defense wide open._
   - _He scored a beauty goal in the last minute of the game._

## Interjection

7. Used to express approval, delight, satisfaction, or thanks. *(Canada)*
   - Simple: Said to show you are pleased, happy about something, or thankful.
   - _The rain's stopped and the sun's out. Beauty!_
   - _"Tickets are sorted for Saturday." "Beauty, can't wait."_

## Noun

8. The prevailing style, taste, or fashion of the time. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: The popular style or fashion of a certain time.
9. Beautiful passages or extracts drawn from poetry. *(archaic)*
   - Simple: Beautiful lines or parts taken from poems.
11. An elementary particle of the quark family, now known as the bottom quark. *(dated)*
   - Simple: One of the basic building blocks of matter, now called the bottom quark.

## Verb

10. To make beautiful; to adorn or enhance the appearance of something. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: To make a person or thing look beautiful.

## Origin

It comes from Middle English bewty, from Anglo-Norman and Old French beauté, from Vulgar Latin *bellitātem ("beauty"), which traces back to Latin bellus ("beautiful, fair"). It largely replaced the native Old English fæġernes, the source of Modern English fairness.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/beauty (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).