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# beauty

«beauty» in Mova's school dictionary: **The quality of being very pleasing to look at, hear or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (beauty, uncountable; a beauty, beauties)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The quality of being very pleasing to look at, hear or think about. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beauty/#m1)

2) A very beautiful person or thing (She is a real beauty). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beauty/#m2)

3) (informal) An excellent example of something (That catch is a beauty!). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beauty/#m3)

4) The best or nicest part of something (The beauty of the plan is that it is cheap). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beauty/#m4)

5) (Australia, NZ, informal) «Beauty!» or «you beauty!» means great, well done. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beauty/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In art, nature and stories: the beauty of a sunset. In everyday talk: «beauty products», «beauty salon». In fairy tales: Beauty and the Beast, Sleeping Beauty. Phrase: beauty is in the eye of the beholder (people find different things beautiful).

### examples

- The beauty of the waterfall took our breath away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beauty/#x1)
- Sleeping Beauty slept for a hundred years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beauty/#x2)
- That new bike is a real beauty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beauty/#x3)
- The beauty of this game is that anyone can play. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beauty/#x4)
- Beauty is only skin deep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beauty/#x5)
- You beauty! We won the match! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beauty/#x6)
- Mum bought some beauty cream at the shop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beauty/#x7)
- That's what I call real beauty." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beauty/#x8)

### note

Uncountable when it means the quality; countable (a beauty, beauties) for a person or thing. Adjective: beautiful. Spelling: b-e-a-u-t-y. «Beauty is only skin deep» means looks matter less than character.

### In the corpora

- [«You beauty, you got it!» he shouts (Australian for brilliant, well done).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/25/)
- [And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, for splendour and for beauty.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.800/)
- [Thy beauty, O Israel, upon thy high places is slain!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.22/)
- [Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty; they shall behold a land stretching afar.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.699/)
- [Thy borders are in the heart of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.690/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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