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Definition: Beau |
BeauNoun1. A man who is the lover of a girl or young woman; "if I'd known he was her boyfriend I wouldn't have asked". 2. A man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Beau" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be beautiful". |
Date "beau" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1600. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Beau Beau Brummel. George Bryan. (1778-1840.) Le Beau D'Orsay. Father of Count D'Orsay, and called by Byron Jeune Cupidon. Beau Fielding, called "Handsome Fielding" by Charles II., whose name was Hendrome Fielding. He died in Scotland Yard, London. Beau Hewitt. The "Sir Fopling Flutter" of Etheredge. (The Man of Mode; or, Sir Fopling Flutter. Beau Nash. Son of a Welsh gentleman, a notorious diner-out. He under-took the management of the bath-rooms at Bath, and conducted the public balls with a splendour and decorum never before witnessed. In old age he sank into poverty. (1674-1761.) Beau Tibbs noted for his finery, vanity, and poverty. (Goldsmith: Citizen of the World.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A date is an occasion when one meets and goes out with a potential lover or future spouse. In this sense, the purpose of a date is for the people dating to get to know each other and decide whether they want to have a relationship. However, the term is also used to mean a social evening between people who have an established relationship, particularly if the goal is to relax away from day-to-day responsibilities, such as caring for children.See also:
- Dating Do's and Don'ts, a 1949 United States government movie on dating
External Links
- Love Stories is for discussing dating and dating issues.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dating."
Synonyms: BeauSynonyms: boyfriend (n), clotheshorse (n), dandy (n), dude (n), fashion plate (n), fellow (n), fop (n), gallant (n), sheik (n), swain (n), swell (n), young man (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Beauty | Noun: beauty, the beautiful, gr/to kalon/gr, le beau ideal. |
Fashion | Noun: fashion, style, ton, bon ton, society; good society, polite society; monde; drawing-room, civilized life, civilization, town, beau monde, high life, court; world; fashionable world, gay world; Vanity Fair; show; (ostentation). |
Fop | Noun: fop, fine gentleman; swell; dandy, dandiprat; exquisite, coxcomb, beau, macaroni, blade, blood, buck, man about town, fast man; fribble, milliner; Jemmy Jessamy, carpet knight; masher, dude. |
Love | Lover, suitor, follower, admirer, adorer, wooer, amoret, beau, sweetheart, inamorato, swain, young man, flame, love, truelove; leman, Lothario, gallant, paramour, amoroso, cavaliere servente, captive, cicisbeo; caro sposo. |
Man | Noun: man, male, he, him; manhood. (adolescence); gentleman, sir, master; sahib; yeoman, wight, swain, fellow, blade, beau, elf, chap, gaffer, good man; husband. (married man); Mr., mister; boy. (youth). |
Perfection | Pink, beau ideal, phenix, paragon; pink of perfection, acme of perfection; ne plus ultra; summit. |
Retaliation | Phrase: mutato nomine de te fabula narratur; par pari refero; tu quoque; you're another; suo sibi gladio hunc jugulo; a beau jeu beau retour; litem.. lite resolvit. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Beau |
| English words defined with "beau": Beauish, Beaus, Beauship, Beaux ♦ Le beau monde ♦ Polled ♦ Triphthong. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "beau": Afriet ♦ Barbe, Beau Jour beau Retour, Beau Trap, BRUMMELL ♦ CRUSTY BEAU, Cupidon ♦ Demi-monde ♦ Jean des Vignes ♦ King of Bath ♦ l'Affection aveugle raison, Lining of the Pocket, Love-lock ♦ Sabreur. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "beau": Spalpeen. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Beau" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (beauteous, beautiful, bonny, comely, fair, fine, good, good looking, goodly, handsome, handsome man, hunky-dory, lovely, nice, nice-looking, pretty, shapely, sightly). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | But it ain't too goddamned beau coup (Full Metal Jacket; writing credit: Gustav Hasford; Michael Herr) He's already asked me if Rudy is an oily variety beau hunk (Sixteen Candles; writing credit: John Hughes) We were identical twins, but somehow Beau was much more identical than me. (The Last Remake of Beau Geste; writing credit: Chris Allen; Sam Bobrick) | |
Lyrics | What to look for, in my new beau. (I'm Right here; performing artist: Samantha Mumba) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Le Beau samedi (1974) C'est votre plus beau temps! (1974) Beau masque (1972) Tout le monde il est gentil Tout le monde il est beau (1972) C'est ben beau l'amour (1971) | |
Song Titles | Just A Little (performing artist: The Beau Brummels) My Angel Baby (performing artist: Toby Beau) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | U. S. Army Base Hospital Number 22, Beau Desert, France. : Dressing room, rolling bandages. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Les Etrennes ou Le Tronc Des Garçons / chez Noël, Rue St. Jacques No. 16. Des au Beau des Estampes. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Le bébé de vos rêves sera encore plus beau Roger Sartirana. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Michel Philippe Bouvart : Chevalier de l'Ordre du Roi, Docteur de la Faculté de Paris,... / Dessiné par Desrais. Gravé par Le Beau. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | What sister's beau has to listen to. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Cathédrale de Chartres. Vie de N.S. Jésus-Christ depuis son incarnation jusqu'à son entrée à Jérusalem / Emile Beau delt. et chromolith. ; Lassus dirext. ; imp. chromolith. Hangard-Maugé. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Switzerland money" by Michaël Claude Commentary: "La monnaie de mon beau pays natal; La Suisse !..." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Author | Quotation |
Lord Byron | This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | She was rather a little angry at this disdainful beau. |
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Travel | Mauritius | Four-star hotels include the Labourdonnais Waterfront, La Pirogue, Maritim, Le Mauricia, Shandrani, Meridien Brabant, Coco Beach, Sugar Beach, Berjaya, Le Canonnier, Beau Rivage. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Beau" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 49.43% of the time. "Beau" is used about 87 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 49.43% | 43 | 52,181 |
| Noun (proper) | 47.13% | 41 | 53,521 |
| Unclassified Items | 2.3% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 1.15% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 87 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "beau" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Beau | First name Male | 9,000 | 712 |
| Beau | Last name | 100 | 88,026 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| Canada | Beau Canada Exploration Ltd. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "beau": a beau jeu beau retour ♦ beau Brummell ♦ beau geste ♦ beau ideal ♦ beau monde ♦ le beau ideal ♦ Le beau monde. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
beau rivage | 1,737 | beau better business | 24 |
beau rivage biloxi | 166 | beau rivage biloxi mississippi | 23 |
beau rivage casino | 164 | belle and the beau | 21 |
beau | 129 | beau sia | 21 |
hotel beau rivage | 84 | beau townsend ford | 20 |
beau bridge | 51 | beau line | 19 |
beau brady | 46 | beau ravage | 18 |
beau broadway rose | 45 | beau rivage hotel and casino | 18 |
beau rivage biloxi ms | 43 | beau bonneau | 18 |
beau monde | 40 | beau rivage resort casino | 18 |
beau cul | 39 | beau jocque | 18 |
beau rivage resort | 38 | beau gars | 17 |
beau rivage mississippi | 35 | beau pere | 17 |
beau dommage | 33 | beau france rivage | 16 |
beau rivage.com | 28 | beau rivage casino biloxi | 16 |
beau brummel | 27 | beau visage | 16 |
beau williams | 27 | beau monde seasoning | 15 |
the beau brummels | 26 | beau bonneau casting | 15 |
beau brummell | 26 | beau rivage ms | 14 |
beau geste | 24 | beau grand slow un | 14 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "beau"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | spitullar, gruar (ladies' man, lady killer, lady's man, philanderer, womanizer). (various references) | |
Arabic | زير النساء (philanderer), المحب (follower, loving, true love), المتأنق (dude), العاشق (lover). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | конте (adonis, chappy, corinthian, dude, exquisite, fop, gallant, jack-a-dandy, nut, popinjay, sharpy, swell, toff), кавалер (cavalier, courtier, gentleman, ladies' man, lady's man), любовник (fancy men, gallant, inamorato, lover, paramour, soul mate). (various references) | |
Czech | elegán. (various references) | |
Danish | Beau's sygdom (Beau disease), Beau's linier paa neglene (Beau lines, Beau-Reil sulcus). (various references) | |
Dutch | ziekte van Beau (Beau disease), insufficientia cordis (Beau disease, cardiac insufficiency), insufficientia cardialis (Beau disease, cardiac insufficiency), insufficientia cardiaca (Beau disease, cardiac insufficiency), groeven van Beau (Beau lines), groef van Beau (Beau-Reil sulcus). (various references) | |
Farsi | مردیکه خیلی بزن توجه دارد, کج کلاه , جوان شیک . (various references) | |
French | petit ami, galant, dandy, élégant. (various references) | |
German | verehrer (admirer, adorer, votaries, votary, worshiper, worshipers, worshipper, worshippers), Stutzer (blood, buck, dandies, dandy, dude, fop, spark), kavalier (cavalier, Galahad, gallant, gentleman, squire), galan (gallant). (various references) | |
Greek | κομψευόμενοσ εραστήσ, θαυμαστήσ (admirer, fan). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מחזר (going round, lover, paramour, solicitor, suitor, wooer), מאהב (lover, paramour), גנדרן (coxcomb, dude, fop, jack-a-dandy, mollycoddle). (various references) | |
Hungarian | udvarló (admirer, beaux, fella, feller, lover, philanderer, spark, squire, suitor, Swain, wooer), piperkõc (dandiacal, Dandy, fop), piperkőc (beaus, beaux, blood, buck, dandified young man, dandy, fop, foppish, pansy, pansy boy, posh), lovag (baronet, beaux, cavalier, Chevalier, knight), gavallér (beaus, gallant, handsome, spark, squire), divathős (beaux), dandy. (various references) | |
Indonesian | pesolek (dandy, dude, fop, nut, nutty). (various references) | |
Italian | pretendente (claimant, freer, pretender, suitor), innamorato (in love, lover, sweetheart, Truelove, Valentine). (various references) | |
Manx | leggad (amour propre, bequest, boy, boy sweetheart, endowment; sweetheart, legacy, partner, Valentine, Valentine sweetheart). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eaubay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | peralta (dandy, puppy), namorador (coquet, philanderer), elegante (attic, brave, braw, cheesy, chic, dainty, dandy, dapper, dink, dinky, elegant, fashionable, feat, fetching, flossy, gentlemanly, graceful, handsome, informed, jimp, knowing, ladylike, light, natty, neat, nifty, nobby, pasta, polished, polite, posh, silk stocking, slim, smart, spicy, spruce, stylish, tasteful, tasty, tony, trig, trim). (various references) | |
Romanian | curtezan (gallant, philanderer, suitor), cavaler (admirer, bachelor, cavalier, escort, gallant, generous, gentleman, horseman, knight, paladin, squire), ales (admirable, choice, chosen, clear, dainty, delicate, distinct, distinguished, elect, elective, excellent, exquisite, first rate, grand, high, lofty, picked, rare, remarkable, select, splendid, supreme), adorator (admirer, adorer, adoring, suitor, worshipper, worshipping), adonis (adonis, charming, prince), admirator (admirer, adorer, reverer, suitor, votary, wooer, worshipper). (various references) | |
Russian | поклонник (admirer, adorer, devotee, fan, follower, idolater, suitor, wooer, worshiper, worshipper). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kicoš (cockscomb, dandy, dude, fop, jack-a-dandy, johnny, toff), dečko (boy, boyfriend). (various references) | |
Spanish | galán (blade, gallant, squire). (various references) | |
Swedish | sprätt (blood, cockscomb, coxcomb, dandy, dude, fop, gallant, jack-a-dandy, jackanapes, popinjay, toff), älskare (amateur, fancier, fancy man, lover, paramour). (various references) | |
Turkish | züppe (adonis, buck, conceited pup, coxcomb, dandified, Dandy, dude, fop, high hat, jack-a-dandy, jackanapes, La-di-da, la-di-dah, macaroni, nob, Peacock, petit-maitre, popinjay, pup, puppy, snob, spark, swell, toff), sevgili (beloved, concubine, darling, dear, dearie, deary, dove, doxy, duck, duckie, ducky, fancy man, favorite, favourite, feller, fellow, flame, gallant, Gill, girl, inamorata, inamorato, Jill, ladylove, love, loved, lover, paramour, pet, precious, queen, steady, sweetheart, sweetie, sweety, Truelove, well-beloved), şık erkek, aşık (admirer, adorer, amorist, amorous, besotted, enamoured, fancy man, gallant, gone, in ecstasy, in love, inamorato, lover, minstrel, paramour, singer, spoon, Swain, sweetheart, wandering minstrel, wooer). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | франт (dude, exquisite, jackanapes, nut, toff), кавалер (cavalier, gallant, steady), залицяльник (admirer, adorer, philander, wolf), бути поклонником. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | khuôn vàng thước ngọc (beau ideal), cái đẹp lý tưởng (beau ideal). (various references) | |
Welsh | coegyn (coxcomb). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | bellus. (various references) |
| French | 1500-Modern | beau. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "beau": beaucoup, beauish, beaus, beaut, beauteous, beauteously, beauteousness, beauteousnesses, beautician, beauticians, beauties, beautification, beautifications, beautified, beautifier, beautifiers, beautifies, beautiful, beautifuler, beautifulest, beautifully, beautifulness, beautifulnesses, beautify, beautifying, beauts, beauty, beaux. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "beau": flambeau, jambeau. (additional references) | |
Words containing "beau": flambeaus, flambeaux, jambeaux, unbeautiful, unbeautifully. (additional references) | |
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"Beau" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: baaa, baabu, bacau, Baea, baeu, baeur, batau, bau, bauc, baue, bauf, bauh, Bauv, bauw, bauz, bavai, Bawu, bea, Beab, Beac, beaf, beap, bearu, beauc, Beauce, Beaud, beauf, beaujo, Beaupuy, beaur, beaut, beauy, beaw, beay, beaz, Becu, bedai, bedu, Befu, begu, behaue, belauan, Benu, beo, Beomuy, beru, besun, beu, beue, Bezu, biaa, Bidayuh, Blaauw, blau, Bleahu, bleau, bleeu, bmaa, Boadu, boai, boyau, Bpeo, Brau, Brehaut, buearu, bueau, Bukavu, Bwaa, Bwea, eao, eba, ebu, Eiu, eua, Feau, geau, Neau, Neaum, veau. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "beau" (pronounced bō") |
| 2 | b ō" | Beaux, bo, bow, turbot. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-u" | |
-1 letter: eau. | |
-2 letters: ab, ae, ba, be. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-u" | |
+1 letter: abuse, beaus, beaut, beaux, daube, tubae. | |
+2 letters: abduce, abjure, abused, abuser, abuses, arbute, aubade, baguet, barque, basque, bateau, battue, baubee, bauble, beauts, beauty, bedaub, belaud, beluga, bubale, bullae, bureau, bursae, butane, cubage, daubed, dauber, daubes, nebula, rubace, suable, subsea, tabued, tubate, umbrae, unable, unbear, upbear, upbeat, urbane, usable. | |
+3 letters: abduced, abduces, abjured, abjurer, abjures, abluent, abluted, abubble, abusers, abusive, abutted, abutter, albumen, arbutes, aubades, auberge, audible, baguets, baleful, ballute, bandeau, baneful, banquet, barbule, baroque, barques, bascule, basques, bateaux, batteau, battues, baubees, baubles, baulked, bauxite, bearhug, beauish, because, bedaubs, belauds, belugas, bluecap, bluejay, bravure, breakup, bubales, bugbane, bugbear, bulkage, bullace, bullate, buoyage, bureaus, bureaux, burgage, bursate, bursera, butanes, buyable, cubages, cudbear, curable, daubers, daubery, daubier, debauch, dupable, durable, equable, equably, exurban, exurbia, fibulae, habitue, hauberk, jambeau, mutable, nebulae, nebular, nebulas, outbake, outbeam, puberal, rubaces, rubasse, rubella, rubeola, rulable, rumbaed, sambuke, subarea, subbase, subdean, subhead, subidea, sublate, subpena, subrace, subsale, sunbeam, surbase, tableau, tunable, umbrage, unbaked, unbased, unbated, unbears, unbrace, unbrake, upbears, upbeats, urbaner, useable, useably. | |
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