Beauty

  • 31beauty — /byooh tee/, n., pl. beauties. 1. the quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind, whether arising from sensory manifestations (as shape, color, sound, etc.), a meaningful design or pattern,… …

    Universalium

  • 32Beauty — Beau|ty 〈[ bju:ti]〉 I 〈f. 10〉 Schönheit, schöne Frau II 〈n. 15; Phys.〉 ladungsartige Quantenzahl der Elementarteilchen, insbesondere der Quarks; Sy Bottomness [engl., „Schönheit“] * * * Beau|ty [ bjʊ:tɪ; engl. = Schönheit]; Formelzeichen …

    Universal-Lexikon

  • 33beauty —   Nani; u i (youthful); piuke (rare).    ♦ Beauty loving, puni nani.    ♦ Poetic tributes to beauty: ai ka manu i luna; pali ke kua, mahina ke alo; a ohe pu u, a ohe ke e; ke kumu lehua muimuia a ka manu; hā ale i ka wai o ka manu. See also kī… …

    English-Hawaiian dictionary

  • 34beauty — see beauty draws with a single hair beauty is in the eye of the beholder beauty is only skin deep …

    Proverbs new dictionary

  • 35beauty —    In Beaumont and Fletcher’s The Wild Goose Chase, Lugier enters and says to two young ladies: ‘Good day, fair beauties!’ ‘You have beautified us, we thank you, sir,’ replies one of them. Viola, in Twelfth Night (l:v) addresses Olivia and Maria… …

    A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

  • 36beauty — 1beau·ty s.m.inv. CO accorc. → beauty case. 2beau·ty s.m.inv. ES ingl. {{wmetafile0}} TS fis. → bottom {{line}} {{/line}} DATA: sec. XX. ETIMO: ingl. beauty propr. bellezza …

    Dizionario italiano

  • 37beauty — noun (plural beauties) Etymology: Middle English beaute, bealte, from Anglo French, from bel, beau beautiful, from Latin bellus pretty; akin to Latin bonus good more at bounty Date: 14th century 1. the quality or aggregate of qualities in a… …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 38beauty — I Canadian Slang [bue tee] Statment of approval, Would you like a drink chap? Beauty II Canadian Slang expression used to refer to something done extremely well. III Australian English Very good. Excellent …

    English dialects glossary

  • 39Beauty — Beau|ty [ bju:ti] die; , s <aus gleichbed. engl. beauty, dies aus fr. beauté> svw. ↑Beauté …

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  • 40beauty — [13] Beauty came via Anglo Norman beute and Old French bealte from Vulgar Latin *bellitas, a derivative of Latin bellus ‘beautiful’ (this developed from an earlier, unrecorded *dwenolos, a diminutive form of Old Latin *duenos, *duonos, which is… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins