Meaning and Origin
What does the name Beauty mean? Keep reading to find the user submitted meanings, dictionary definitions, and more.
Origin and Meaning of Beauty
User Submitted Origins
English
73%
Arabic
9%
Hindu
9%
African
9%
User Submitted Meanings
- A user from Nigeria says the name Beauty is of English origin and means "Gift of God".
International Interest
Also see international interest
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
noun Beau"ty
Senses
- 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
Other Dictionary Sources
- The qualities that give pleasure to the senses
- An outstanding example of its kind
- A very attractive or seductive looking woman
Wiktionary
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