beauty

beauty
/'bju:ti/ noun
1 APPEARANCE
a) (U) a quality that a place or person has that makes them very attractive to look at: Her beauty had faded over the years. | an area of outstanding natural beauty | beauty product/tip etc (=a product etc that is supposed to make you more beautiful)
b) (C) old-fashioned a woman who is very beautiful: She was considered a great beauty in her youth.
2 GOOD QUALITY (U) a quality that something such as a poem, song, emotion etc has, which gives you pleasure or joy: the beauty of Shakespeare's verse
3 ADVANTAGE the beauty of a particularly good quality that makes something especially suitable or useful: The beauty of golf is that you can play it on your own.
4 GOOD EXAMPLE (C) spoken a very good example of something or an object that is a particularly good, large, or pleasant one of its type: We had a turkey at Easter - a real beauty it was. | That black eye's a beauty, Justin!
5 APPROVAL (you) beauty! AustrE spoken used to show that you are very pleased by something: Look at this lunch. Beauty! | You beauty! You've made my day.
6 beauty is in the eye of the beholder used to say that different people have different opinions about what is beautiful

Longman dictionary of contemporary English. 2004.

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  • beauty — ► NOUN (pl. beauties) 1) a combination of qualities that delights the aesthetic senses. 2) (before another noun ) intended to make someone more attractive: beauty treatment. 3) a beautiful woman. 4) an excellent example. 5) an attractive feature… …   English terms dictionary

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