Meaning and Origin
What does the name Beauty mean? Keep reading to find the user submitted meanings, dictionary definitions, and more.
User Submitted Origins
User Submitted Meanings
- A user from Nigeria says the name Beauty is of English origin and means "Gift of God".
- An assemblage of 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.]
- A particular grace, feature, ornament, or excellence; anything beautiful; as, the beauties of nature.
- A beautiful person, esp. a beautiful woman."All the admired beauties of Verona." [Shak.]
- Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion.(Obs)"She stained her hair yellow, which was then the beauty." [Jer. Taylor.]
Etymology: OE. beaute beute, OF. beauté biauté, Pr. beltat, F. beauté, fr. an assumed LL. bellitas, from L. bellus pretty. See Beau
- The qualities that give pleasure to the senses
- An outstanding example of its kind
- A very attractive or seductive looking woman
From Middle English bewty, bewte, beaute, bealte, from Anglo-Norman and Old French beauté (early Old French spelling biauté), from Vulgar Latin *bellitās (“beauty”), from Latin bellus (“beautiful, fair”); see beau.
- The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness.
- Someone who is beautiful.
- Brigitte Bardot was a renowned .
- Something that is particularly good or pleasing.
- What a goal! That was a real !
- An excellent or egregious example of something.
- (with the definite article) The excellence or genius of a scheme or decision.
- The of the deal is it costs nothing!
- (physics, obsolete) A beauty quark (now called bottom quark).
- Beauty treatment; cosmetology.
- (obsolete) Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion.
- (archaic, in the plural) Beautiful passages or extracts of poetry.
beauty was also found in the following language(s): Dutch