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Beauty Spot

Definition: Beauty Spot

Beauty Spot

Noun

1. A spot that is worn on a lady's face for adornment.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Synonym by domain: beauties (medicine).

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Modern Usage: Beauty Spot

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Beauty Spot (1912)

Sally's Beauty Spot (1990)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Beauty Spot

DomainTitle

Books

  • Beauty spot, Santa Barbara (reference)

  • Leland, Mississippi : from hellhole to beauty spot (reference)

  • Tarn Hows : an approach to the management of a popular beauty spot : a report to the Countryside Commission (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Beauty Spot

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

beauty spot

17
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Beauty Spot

Language Translations for "beauty spot"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

nishan (aim, birthmark, decoration, medal, mole, naevus, target). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏علامة الجمال, ‏خال (mole, uncle, unoccupied, void), ‏شامة (grain, mole, pit). (various references)

   

Czech

  

znaménko krásy. (various references)

   

Danish

  

skønhedsplet (lentigo, naevus pigmentosus), naevus pigmentosus (lentigo, naevus pigmentosus, naevus spilus), lentigo (lentigo, naevus pigmentosus). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

naevus pigmentosus (lentigo, naevus pigmentosus), moedervlek (birthmark, haemagioma, lentigo, mole 2.nevus, naevus, naevus pigmentosus, nevus). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

pisama (freckle, lentigo, naevus pigmentosus). (various references)

   

French

  

grain de beauté. (various references)

   

German

  

schönheitsfleck, Naevus pigmentosus (lentigo, naevus pigmentosus, naevus spilus, nevus pigmentosus, pigmented mole, pigmented nevus), Muttermal (birthmark, haemagioma, lentigo, mole, mole 2.nevus, naevus, naevus pigmentosus, nevus), Lentigo (lentigo, naevus pigmentosus), Leberfleck (lentigo, liver spot, mole, naevus pigmentosus). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κρεατοελιά (lentigo, mole, naevus pigmentosus), μικρός σπίλος (lentigo, naevus pigmentosus), μικρή ελιά (lentigo, naevus pigmentosus), ωραίο μέροσ, φακίδα (freckle, lentigo, naevus pigmentosus), εφηλίδα (lentigo, naevus pigmentosus), ελιά προσώπου. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

קו"ת חן. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szépségtapasz (beauty-spot, patch). (various references)

   

Italian

  

nevo pigmentario (lentigo, naevus pigmentosus, pigmentary mole), neo (chemical element:atomic number 10, flaw, lentigo, mole, naevus, naevus pigmentosus, neon, nevus, slight defect). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

'子 (black figures, dark mole, face mole, mite, prompter, stagehand), "ヤ樽 (beautiful, beauty, beauty adviser, beauty contest, beauty corner, beauty cycle, beauty parlor, beauty salon, beer barrel, buffet, bureau, bureaucracy, bureaucrat, handbill, poster, view, viewer, viewpoint, Viewtron, villa), 奇勝 (unexpected victory, victory by uncommon stratagem), 勝地 (scenic spot). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

"ューティースポット , きしょう (badge, climate, damage, disposition, emblem, getting out of bed, happy laughter, injury, insignia, medal, memorizing, rare, rising, scarce, temperament, unexpected victory, victory by uncommon stratagem, vow, weather), しょうち (acceptance, acknowledgment, admitting, agreement, assent, awareness, calling together, compliance, consent, invitation, scenic spot, shallow wisdom, superficial knowledge), ほくろ (dark mole, face mole, mite), "くし (abuse, dark mole, distinguished citizen, envoy, face mole, history of a nation, Japanese history, mite, overuse of a pitcher, patriot, provincial governor). (various references)

   

Manx

  

fahrane aalin, boayl fahrane. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eautybay otspay

   

Portuguese

  

sinais (lentigo, naevus pigmentosus, signs). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

aluniţã (mole, patch). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

родинка (beauty mark, birthmark, birth-mark, mole). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

mladež (birthmark, mole, naevus, stigma, youth). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

lunar (lentigo, lunar, lunary, mole, naevus pigmentosus, patch, spot). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

vacker plats, skönhetsfläck, lentigo (lentigo, naevus pigmentosus), lentigines (lentigo, naevus pigmentosus). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

ben (ego, I, mole, myself, nevus), güzellik beni, güzel manzaralı yer. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

родимка (birth mark, mole, naevus, spiloma), цятка (fleck, mottle). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Beauty Spot

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-o-p-s-t-t-u-y"

-1 letter: autotypes.

-2 letters: autotype.

-3 letters: autopsy, battues, outeats, outstay, payouts, paystub, subtype, teapots, teapoys, upbeats, upstate.

-4 letters: aptest, astute, battue, bayous, beauts, beauty, bettas, buteos, buttes, bypast, obtest, obtuse, outate, outbye, outeat, outsat, outset, payout, sapote, setout, spotty, statue, taupes, teapot, teapoy, tepoys, toasty, tubate, upbeat.

-5 letters: abets, about, abuse, abuts, abyes, atopy, autos, baste, bates, batts, battu, batty, bayou, beast, beats, beaus, beaut, besot, betas, betta, boast, boats, botas, botts, bouse, bousy, bouts, buoys, busty, buteo, butes, butte, butts, butty, bytes, estop, obeys, outby, paseo, paste, pasty, pates, patsy, patty, pause, peats, peaty, pesto, pesty, petto, petty, poesy, poets, potsy, potty, pouts, pouty, psoae, pubes, putto, putts, putty, sabot, saute, sepoy, septa, setup, soapy, soupy, spate, spout, sputa, state, stoae, stoat, stope, stopt, stoup, stout, stupa, stupe, suety, sutta, tabes, tabus, tapes, taste, tasty, tates, taupe, tauts, teats, tepas, tepoy, testa, testy, toast, toeas, topes, totes, touse, touts, tsuba, tubae, tubas, tubes, types, typos, upbye, upset, yaups, yeast, yetts, youse.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Beauty Spot


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 65 61 75 74 79      53 70 6F 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01100101 01100001 01110101 01110100 01111001 00100000 01010011 01110000 01101111 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#101 &#97 &#117 &#116 &#121 &#32 &#83 &#112 &#111 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0065 0061 0075 0074 0079      0053 0070 006F 0074

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

367167878691253828186

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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