beauty | | |
1. n. The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness. | |
2. n. Someone who is beautiful. | |
Brigitte Bardot was a renowned beauty. | |
3. n. Something that is particularly good or pleasing. | |
That phrasing is a beauty. | |
What a goal, what a beauty. | |
4. n. An excellent or egregious example of something. | |
5. n. (with the definite article) The excellence, e.g. the genius | |
The beauty of the deal is it costs nothing! | |
6. n. (particle, obsolete) A beauty quark (now called bottom quark). | |
7. n. Beauty treatment; cosmetology. | |
8. n. (obsolete) Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion. | |
9. interj. (Canada) Thanks! Cool! | |
It's the long weekend. Beauty! | |
10. adj. (Canada) Of high quality, well done. | |
He made a beauty pass through the neutral zone. | |