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# beau

«beau» in Mova's school dictionary: **a boyfriend or a man who is courting a woman** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a beau, beaux or beaus); French word (beau)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (old-fashioned) A beau is a boyfriend or a man who is courting a woman. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beau/#m1)

2) (French) Beau is a French adjective meaning «beautiful» or «handsome» (masculine form), as in «beau temps» (fine weather); it sounds like English «bow» (the knot) or «bo». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beau/#m2)

3) Beau can also be a boy's name (a name). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beau/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In old novels and historical stories, a young woman's «beau» is the man who wants to marry her. In French lessons, «beau» describes a handsome boy or nice weather: «Il fait beau» means «The weather is fine». Phrases: «her beau», «Il fait beau» (French).

### examples

- In the old story, Lizzie waited for her beau at the dance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beau/#x1)
- Aunt Sue's new beau brought her flowers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beau/#x2)
- In French, «Il fait beau» means «It's a nice day». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beau/#x3)
- «Un beau chien» is French for «a handsome dog». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beau/#x4)
- Beau is the name of the boy next door. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beau/#x5)
- Grandma laughed and called Grandpa her old beau. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beau/#x6)

### note

Pronounced «boh», like «bow» (the ribbon). English plural is «beaux» (also said «bohz») or «beaus». In French, the feminine form is «belle», and before a vowel it becomes «bel». Old-fashioned in English; today people say «boyfriend».

### In the corpora

- [beau means beautiful or handsome, but il fait beau simply means the weather is sunny and nice.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/13-weather-and-seasons/16/)
- [Il fait beau et chaud.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/39-olympiad-decoding-a-short-french-text/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «beau» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beau/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.