beauty
the qualities that give pleasure to the senses
How often you will meet it
Rank 572 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 34,068 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.016% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
noun
- the qualities that give pleasure to the senses
- a very attractive or seductive looking woman also: smasher, stunner, knockout, ravisher, sweetheart, peach
- an outstanding example of its kind also: beaut his roses were beautieswhen I make a mistake it's a beaut
beauty in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.
The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 1
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With dark eyes and eyelashes she would have been a beauty.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles · Agatha Christie · Chapter 1
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And certainly it was not her dress that helped setting off her beauty.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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Is she to be the Belle of the Beauty and the Beast (Pantomime)?
Punch — Volume 99, August 16, 1890 · Various · Chapter 1
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He had always been more sensitive than the people about him to the appeal of natural beauty.
Ethan Frome · Edith Wharton · Chapter 1