beauty

Definition

  • noun: the quality of being physically attractive
  • noun: the quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit
  • sometimes used before another noun
  • synonyms: loveliness, rage, fashion

Examples

  • We have different ideas/notions/conceptions of 'beauty'. [=different opinions about what makes things beautiful]

  • Her 'beauty' is beyond compare. [=she is very beautiful; no one is as beautiful as she is]

  • “A thing of 'beauty' is a joy for ever…” <aq>John Keats, 'Endymion' (1818)</aq>

Movie quotes

  • (..) Oh. I mean, just see how low the, uh Claus meter is. That's shocking. That's why I came up With this little beauty in the 's. WH-what is it? It's a cringle ... A -reindeer power jet turbine engine. Without it, the sleigh couldn't (..)
    2003 Elf