beauty
SubstantivInterjektionAdjektivVerbhäufig in Dialogen
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The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness.
Substantiv
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The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness.
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.
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,”—that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
‘Say, hast thou seen enough!’ ‘I have looked on beauty, and I am blinded,’ I said hoarsely, lifting my hand to cover up my eyes.
Warwick's first glance had revealed the fact that the young woman was strikingly handsome, with a stately beauty seldom encountered.
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Someone who is beautiful.
Brigitte Bardot was a renowned beauty.
The website calls a vote for Alyona a vote against "beauties who do not look natural and who cannot be distinguished from each other" and rails against the "imposed standards" of 90-60-90 vital statistics, and "cigarettes with out nicotine and coffee without caffeine".
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Those aspects or elements that make someone or something beautiful.
There the roſy-finger'd Spring, by the liquid mirror of a cryſtalline pool, was attiring her fair daughters in ſeven-fold ornaments, while the love-whiſpering breezes ſtole kiſſes as they paſſed, and fanned their glowing beauties.
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Something that is particularly good or pleasing.
What a goal! That was a real beauty!
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An excellent or egregious example of something.
He got into a fight and ended up with two black eyes – two real beauties!
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The excellence or genius of a scheme or decision.
The beauty of the deal is it costs nothing!
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veraltetA beauty quark (now called bottom quark).
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Beauty treatment; cosmetology.
a hair and beauty salon
When the beauty team departs the set, the AD will say, “Let’s go on a bell.” A bell sounds throughout the stage, and […]
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veraltetPrevailing style or taste; rage; fashion.
Menander in the comedy brings in a man turning his wife from his house, because she stained her hair yellow, which was then the beauty.
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altertümlichBeautiful passages or extracts of poetry.
Herkunft
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der.? Proto-Italic *dwenos Old Latin duenos Old Latin *duenelos Latin bellus Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -itātem Vulgar Latin *bellitātem Anglo-Norman biautébor. Middle English beaute English beauty From 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.
Interjektion
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Thanks!
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Cool!
It's the long weekend. Beauty!
Adjektiv
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altertümlichPossessing beauty; beautiful.
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Of high quality, well done.
He made a beauty pass through the neutral zone.
Verb
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veraltetTo make beautiful.
Formen
- Plural
- beauties
- Komparativ
- more beauty
- Superlativ
- most beauty, beautiest
- Präteritum
- beautied
- Partizip II
- beautied
- Partizip I
- beautying
- 3. Person Singular
- beauties
beauty · The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness.
beaver · A semiaquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat…Beaver · A surname.Bebe · A female given name.