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beauties Definition


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beauty
noun beauties
    1. A quality pleasing to the senses, especially to the eye or ear, or giving aesthetic pleasure generally.
      Thesaurus: loveliness, allure, attractiveness, delicacy, shapeliness, grace, pulchritude, bloom, comeliness; Antonym: ugliness, homeliness.
    2. colloq
      An excellent example of something.
      Example: a beauty of a black eye
    3. A benefit or particular strength or quality.
      Example: The beauty of the plan is its flexibility
    4. A beautiful person, usually a woman or girl.
      Example: She's a famous beauty
      Thesaurus: belle, goddess, fox (US slang), siren, looker (slang), stunner, Venus, femme fatale.
exclamation
    (Austral & NZ)
    1. colloq
      Enthusiastically expressing approval; great!
      Form: you beauty! (also)
Etymology: 13c: from French biauté, ultimately from Latin bellus.



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