beauty

1. n. An assemblage or graces or properties pleasing to the eye, the ear, the intellect, the aesthetic faculty, or the moral sense. Source: opted

2. n. A particular grace, feature, ornament, or excellence; anything beautiful; as, the beauties of nature. Source: opted

3. n. A beautiful person, esp. a beautiful woman. Source: opted

4. n. Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion. Source: opted

5. n. the qualities that give pleasure to the senses Source: wordnet

6. n. a very attractive or seductive looking woman Source: wordnet

7. n. an outstanding example of its kind Source: wordnet

8. 1. An assemblage or graces or properties pleasing to the eye, the ear, the intellect, the æsthetic faculty, or the moral sense. Beauty consists of a certain composition of color and figure, causing delight in the beholder. Locke. The production of beauty by a multiplicity of symmetrical parts uniting in a consistent whole. Wordsworth. The old definition of beauty, in the Roman school, was, "multitude in unity;" and there is no doubt that such is the principle of beauty. Coleridge. 2. A particular grace, feature, ornament, or excellence; anything beautiful; as, the beauties of nature. 3. A beautiful person, esp. a beautiful woman. All the admired beauties of Verona. Shak. 4. Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion. [Obs.] She stained her hair yellow, which was then the beauty. Jer. Taylor. Beauty spot, a patch or spot placed on the face with intent to heighten beauty by contrast. Source: webster

9. n:100 n. the qualities that give pleasure to the senses n. an outstanding example of its kind Source: ecdict

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