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beauty

/ˈbjuti/ noun A2
  1. The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness. (uncountable)
  2. Someone who is beautiful. (countable, uncountable) · Brigitte Bardot was a renowned beauty.
  3. Those aspects or elements that make someone or something beautiful. (countable, uncountable)
  4. Something that is particularly good or pleasing. (countable, uncountable) · What a goal! That was a real beauty!
  5. An excellent or egregious example of something. (countable, uncountable) · He got into a fight and ended up with two black eyes – two real beauties!
  6. The excellence or genius of a scheme or decision. (countable, uncountable) · The beauty of the deal is it costs nothing!
  7. Beauty treatment; cosmetology. (countable, uncountable) · a hair and beauty salon

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One of the beauties of Jungle Law is that punishment settles all scores.
The Jungle Book, p. 63 · B2
Its beauty seemed to strike the child dumb.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 23 · C1
Anne’s beauty-loving eyes lingered on it all, taking everything greedily in.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 39 · C1
“They grew in beauty side by side until they were sixteen.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 205 · C1

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Words, meanings, pronunciations and translations from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); how common each word is from wordfreq. Made into this dictionary by FluentPlex.