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Definition: Beauty |
BeautyNoun1. The qualities that give pleasure to the senses. 2. A very attractive or seductive looking woman. 3. An outstanding example of its kind; "his roses were beauties"; "when I make a mistake it's a beaut". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "beauty" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Etymology: Beauty \Beau"ty\, noun; plural Beauties . [Old English beaute, beute, Old French beaut['e], biaut['e], Pr. beltat, French beaut['e], from an assumed Late Latin bellitas, from Latin bellus pretty. See Beau.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | BEAUTY, n. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | Beauty in any form is pre-eminently good. A beautiful woman brings pleasure and profitable business. A well formed and beautiful child, indicates love reciprocated and a happy union. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Health | Characteristics or attributes of persons or things which elicit pleasurable feelings. (references) |
Literature | Beauty Tout est beau sans chandelles. "La nuit tous les chats sont gris." Beauty is but skin deep. "O formose puer, nimium ne crede colori." Virgil, Bucolics, ii. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang | Adjective. Source: New Zealand English. Definition: Used at the end of a conversation to mean in agreement or thank you. Context: Used usually to end a business deal, a friendly closer to a conversation used mostly in business transactions. Social Source: The Kiwis. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Beauty is visual pleasantness of a person, animal, object or scene, and also pleasantness of sound, especially music.
Understanding the nature and meaning of beauty is one of the key themes in the philosophical discipline known as aesthetics.
Decoration is an object or act to increase beauty of a person, room, etc.; see also Interior decoration. It may also be something that is an honor to get, see List of prizes, medals, and awards.
A common theory says that beauty is the appearance of things and people that are good. This has many supporting examples. Most of us judge healthy, symmetric, fertile or virile human beings as beautiful. Symmetry may be important because it is evidence that the person grew up in a healthy way, from without visible genetic defects. One traditional, subtle feature that is considered an indication of beautiful women in all cultures is a waist-to-hip ratio of about 75%. The waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) theory was discovered by psychologist Dr. Devendra Singh of the University of Texas at Austin. Physiologists have shown that this ratio accurately indicates most womens' fertility. Traditionally, in premodern ages when food was more scarce, fat people were judged more attractive than slender.
"Beauty as goodness" still has whole classes of significant counterexamples with no agreed solution. These include such things as a glacier, or a ruggedly dry desert mountain range. Many people find beauty in hostile nature, but this seems bad, or at least unrelated to any sense of goodness. Another type of counterexample are comic or sarcastic works of art, which can be good, but are rarely beautiful.
It is well known that people's skills develop and change their sense of beauty. Carpenters may view an out-of-true building as ugly, and many master carpenters can see out-of-true angles as small as half a degree. Many musicians can likewise hear as dissonant a tone that's high or low by as little as two percent of the distance to the next note. Most people have similar aesthetics about the work or hobbies they've mastered.
The earliest theory of beauty can be found in the works of early Greek philosophers from the presocratic period, like Pythagoras. The extant writings attributed to Pythagoras reveal that the Pythagorean school, if not Pythagoras himself, saw a strong connection between mathematics and beauty. In particular, they noted that objects proportioned according to the golden ratio seemed more attractive. Some modern research seems to confirm this, in that people whose facial features are symmetric and proportioned according the golden ratio are consistently ranked as more attractive than those whose faces are not.
Another connection between mathematics and beauty which played a prominent role in Pythagoras's philosophy was the way in which musical tones can be arranged in mathematical sequences, which repeat at regular intervals called octaves.
Beauty contests claim to be able to judge beauty. The millihelen is sometimes jokingly defined as the scientific unit of human beauty. This derives from the legend of Helen of Troy as presented in Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, in which her beauty was said to have launched a thousand ships. The millihelen is therefore the degree of beauty that can launch one ship.
A survey conducted by London Guildhall University of 11,000 people showed that (subjectively) good-looking people earn more. Less attractive people earned, on average, 13% less than more attractive people. While the penalty for overweight was around 5%.
More needs to be said about this, but it contains most of the useful information from the notes that were here before.
See also aesthetics, wabi-sabi, sexual attraction, human physical appearance, mathematical beauty
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Beauty."
Synonyms: BeautySynonyms: beaut (n), dish (n), knockout (n), looker (n), lulu (n), mantrap (n), peach (n), ravisher (n), smasher (n), stunner (n), sweetheart (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: ugliness (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. |
Pulchritude, form elegance, grace, beauty unadorned, natural beauty; symmetry; comeliness, fairness; Adjective: polish, gloss; good effect, good looks; belle tournure; trigness; bloom, brilliancy, radiance, splendor, gorgeousness, magnificence; sublimity, sublimification. | |
Beauty; hunk. | |
Pain | Phrase: decies repePhrase: decies repetita placebit; "charms strike the sight but merit wins the soul"; "sweetness and light"; beauty is only skin deep. |
Piety | Spiritual existence,spiritual existence, odor of sanctity, beauty of holiness. |
Symmetry | Symmetry, shapeliness, finish; beauty; proportion, eurythmy, uniformity, parallelism; bilateral symmetry, trilateral symmetry, multilateral symmetry; centrality. |
Woman | Phrase: "a perfect woman nobly planned"; "a lovely lady garmented in white"; das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan; "earth's noblest thing, a woman perfected"; es de vidrio la mujer; "she moves a goddess and she looks a queen"; "the beauty of a lovely woman is like music"; varium et mutabile semper femina; "woman is the lesser man". |
Workshop | Hive, hive of industry; nursery; hothouse, hotbed; kitchen; mint, forge, loom; dock, dockyard; alveary; armory; laboratory, lab, refinery; cannery; power plant; beauty parlor;beehive, bindery, forcing pit, nailery, usine, slip, yard, wharf; foundry, foundery; furnace; vineyard. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | But it helps me remember and I need to remember Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in. (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball) I was a newborn vampire weeping at the beauty of the night (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice) A place rich with all the strange beauty of your nighttime dreams (Seven Years in Tibet; writing credit: Becky Johnston) You're beauty and beast (Batman Returns; writing credit: Bob Kane; Daniel Waters) That's the beauty of music (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont) | |
Lyrics | She's a beauty. (She's A Beauty; performing artist: The Tubes) Summit of beauty and love (Venus; performing artist: Bananarama) And change the beauty of the melody (Rock'n'Roll Music; performing artist: Chuck Berry) All the beauty and wonder, wrapping around me. (The Earth, The Sun, The Rain; performing artist: Color Me Badd) Southern Skies It's Precious Beauty (Southern Nights; performing artist: GLEN CAMPBELL) | |
Clever | A soiled baby, with a neglected nose, cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty. (references; author: Mark Twain) Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder. (references; author: unknown) The quest for beauty is a quest for love. (references; author: unknown) Money glitters, beauty sparkles, and intelligence shines. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Beauty and the Beast (2003) The Great American Beauty Contest (1973) Black Beauty (1971) Beauty and the Beast (1966) The Beauty Jungle (1964) | |
Song Titles | Beauty & The Beast (performing artist: Peabo Bryson & Celine Dion) Beauty Is Only Skin Deep (performing artist: The Temptations) She's A Beauty (performing artist: The Tubes) | |
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 | Holacanthus tricolor (Bloch). Rock Beauty; Palmoneta. In: "The Fishes of Porto Rico", by Barton Warren Evermann and Millard Caleb Marsh. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, Vol. XX for 1900. First Part. P. 350, Plate 36. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Meadow beauty - Rhexia virginica along Mashpee Trail at South Cape Beach. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
 | North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Few places can match the beauty of a salt marsh at sunset. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | Elkhorn and staghorn corals provide beauty and complexity to the reef. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
 | Whimsical view of the freedom and beauty of the sea. In: "The Voyage of H. M. S. CHALLENGER A Summary....", Part I, p. xxxv. Library Call Number Q115.C4 1880 summary pt. 1. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | A farmstead windbreak and a native grass filter strip, both considered conservation buffers, add beauty and protection to a farm in Carroll County, Iowa. Credit: Lynn Betts. |
 | Trees add to the beauty and tranquility of a backyard. Credit: Jim Archambault. |  | Open space is home for wildlife and provides beauty to the countryside. Credit: Gary Kramer. |
 | Scenic View from Beauty BayCouer d'Alene Field OfficeUCSCUpper Columbia Salmon Clearwater District. Credit: Karen Wattenmaker. |  | Beautiful sand dunes . . . beauty untouched!. Credit: Lori Cook. |
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| "Scottish Beauty" by Roy Boy Commentary: "Picture from a delightful Bed & Breakfast in Perth, Scotland." | "Black & White Beauty" by Kris Kelley Commentary: "Black & white butterfly on red flowers." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Aristotle | Beauty is a gift of God. |
Emily Dickinson | Beauty is not caused. It is. |
Fyodor Dostoyevski | Beauty will save the world. |
Hannah More | How goodness heightens beauty! |
Henry James | In art economy is always beauty. |
Jalal-Uddin Rumi | Let the beauty we love be what we do. |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest. |
Park Benjamin | Beauty and grace command the world. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Beauty rests on necessities. |
St. Augustine | Love is the beauty of the soul. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | She had never boasted either beauty or cleverness |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | There certainly was a sort of witchery of beauty about them |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Still, even in respect of grace and beauty, there were points well worth noting |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Beauty begins with thee |
Cymon and Iphigenia | John Dryden | When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | What is that beauty which the artist struggles to express from lumps of earth, said Stephen coldly |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | If I thought that, I tell thee, homicide, These nails should rend that beauty from my cheeks |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | And from her great and humble position in the family she had taken dignity and a clean calm beauty. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | The beauty of the ice was gone, and it was too late to study the bottom |
As You Like It | William Shakespeare | Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold |
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Health | This type of stroke is often called "beauty-parlor syndrome," which refers to the practice of extending the neck backwards over a sink for hair-washing in beauty parlors. (references) | |
Business | This report reviews the Russian beauty and health products market. (references) | |
Many foreign manufacturers specialize in both mass market and selective beauty products. (references) | ||
The United States is the fifth major supplier of beauty and health care products to Russia. (references) | ||
Economic History | Haiti | These companies market selected products, e.g., cosmetics and beauty supplies. (references) |
Sweden | Consumer goods - why not Sweden? Fashion, health and beauty aids, and the list goes on. (references) | |
Russia | By contrast, person-to-person direct marketing works well (e.g., health and beauty products). (references) | |
Political Economy | GHANA | Services Barriers: The Ghanaian investment code proscribes foreign participation in the following sectors: small-scale wholesale and retail sales, taxi and car rental services with fleets of fewer than ten vehicles, lotteries, and barber and beauty shops. (references) |
Travel | Philippines | Personal services such as fitness clubs, beauty salons, and others are easily obtainable. (references) |
Costa Rica | The perennial spring climate, scenic beauty, housing, food, and ancillary services make Costa Rica a comfortable place to live. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Kazakhstan | Offers to participate in international beauty contests also are used. (references) |
Guatemala | The methods of approach include promises of economic rewards, jobs in cafeterias or beauty parlors, or jobs in other countries. (references) | |
Brazil | Traffickers often target victims with promises of lucrative work as dancers or models in Europe; beauty contest winners have been cited as common targets. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom. Following are some of the more notable epigrams of the learned and ingenious Dr. Jamrach Holobom: We know better the needs of ourselves than of others. To serve oneself is economy of administration. In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity. There are three sexes; males, females and girls. Beauty in women and distinction in men are alike in this: they seem to be the unthinking a kind of credibility. Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of. While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands you are safe, for you can watch both his. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Bob Jones | Well, of course I think an American should be free to do whatever he wants. That's the beauty of this country. I'm glad we had Christian forefathers who understood the virtue of liberty. |
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Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Many of their advocates, while they wish to vindicate the liberty of human nature are anxious also to preserve its dignity and beauty. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | I propose that we increase the beauty of America and end the poisoning of our rivers and the air that we breathe. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | As the Apollo astronauts flew over the moon's gray surface on Christmas Eve, they spoke to us of the beauty of earth--and in that voice so clear across the lunar distance, we heard them invoke God's blessing on its goodness. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | The Alaska Lands Act reaffirms our commitment to the environment and strikes a balance between protecting areas of great beauty and allowing development of Alaska's oil, gas, mineral, and timber resources. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Standing here, one faces a magnificent vista, opening up on this city's special beauty and history. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Beauty" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.88% of the time. "Beauty" is used about 4,234 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) | 99.88% | 4,229 | 2,324 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.12% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4,234 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "beauty". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Abinoam | N/A | Biblical | Father of beauty |
| Adoram | N/A | Biblical | Their beauty |
| Ahinoam | N/A | Biblical | Beauty of the brother |
| Corinth | N/A | Biblical | Beauty |
| Hadadezer | N/A | Biblical | Beauty of assistance |
| Hadoram | N/A | Biblical | Their beauty |
| Joppa | N/A | Biblical | Beauty |
| Keren-happuch | N/A | Biblical | The horn or child of beauty |
| Nain | N/A | Biblical | Beauty |
| Paran | N/A | Biblical | Beauty |
| Zipporah | N/A | Biblical | Beauty |
| Zuzims | N/A | Biblical | Beauty |
| Keren | N/A | English | The horn or child of beauty |
| Tziporah | N/A | Jewish | Beauty |
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Japan | Gantan Beauty Industry Co., Ltd. | USA | Allou Health & Beauty Care, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "beauty": a bewitching beauty ♦ a paragon of beauty ♦ bathing beauty ♦ be unequaled for beauty ♦ be unequalled for beauty ♦ be unmatched for beauty ♦ beauty and the beast ♦ beauty bush ♦ beauty care ♦ beauty center ♦ beauty competition ♦ beauty consultant ♦ beauty contest ♦ beauty cream ♦ beauty culture ♦ beauty is in the eye of the beholder ♦ beauty is only skin deep ♦ beauty item ♦ beauty of holiness ♦ beauty parlor ♦ beauty parlour ♦ beauty products ♦ beauty quark ♦ beauty queen ♦ beauty salon ♦ beauty saloon ♦ beauty shop ♦ beauty sleep ♦ beauty specialist ♦ beauty spot ♦ beauty treatment ♦ black beauty ♦ bring to perfect beauty ♦ California beauty ♦ Camberwell beauty ♦ Carolina spring beauty ♦ Flemish beauty ♦ line of beauty ♦ love of beauty ♦ meadow beauty ♦ natural beauty ♦ oak beauty ♦ painted beauty ♦ raw beauty ♦ reigning beauty ♦ rock beauty ♦ Rome Beauty ♦ scenic beauty ♦ sense of beauty ♦ sleeping beauty ♦ spring beauty ♦ the perfection of beauty ♦ the reigning beauty ♦ the sleeping beauty ♦ Virginia spring beauty. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "beauty": beauty-before-bread, beauty-contests, beauty-counter, beauty-dress, beauty-related, beauty-spot. | |
Ending with "beauty": All-beauty, canvas-beauty, pine-beauty. | |
Containing "beauty": meadow-beauty family, Salix-Beauty Line Park, sleeping-beauty-style. | |
| 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 |
beauty | 8,037 | sallys beauty supply | 343 |
beauty supply | 2,877 | fitness beauty | 323 |
beauty product | 2,125 | free beauty sample | 318 |
sally beauty supply | 1,774 | beauty secret | 318 |
beauty and the beast | 1,751 | sally beauty | 299 |
health and beauty | 1,555 | beauty babe | 259 |
beauty tip | 1,237 | barber beauty school | 230 |
beauty salon | 1,223 | teen beauty | 229 |
beauty school | 1,002 | beauty contest | 219 |
american beauty | 946 | beauty girl | 219 |
sleeping beauty | 788 | beauty care | 219 |
beauty pageant | 767 | beauty salon equipment | 215 |
black beauty | 744 | beauty and the beast lyrics | 214 |
natural beauty | 594 | angel beauty | 207 |
japanese beauty | 578 | beauty rest | 192 |
bath and beauty | 568 | nude beauty | 177 |
asian beauty | 557 | beauty pagents | 177 |
global beauty | 441 | beauty supply store | 169 |
bathing beauty | 425 | beach beauty | 169 |
simmons beauty rest | 395 | beauty control | 165 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "beauty"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | skone (beautiful woman). (various references) | |
Albanian | bukuri (charm, glory, pulchritude, splendor, splendour). (various references) | |
Arabic | غانية, حسناء (beautiful), طلاوة (charm, grace), جميلة (bonny, comely, shapely, stunner), جمال (charm, grace, gracefulness, loveliness, prettiness, shapeliness), الجمال (cameleer, fairness), شىء جميل (poem). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хубост (comeliness, fairness, fineness, prettiness, sightliness), красота (comeliness, fairness, glory, loveliness, pulchritude), красавица (fair, lovely), прелест (enchantment, loveliness). (various references) | |
Catalan | bellesa. (various references) | |
Chinese | 美人 (belle), 秀丽 (Beauties), 姿 (appearance, disposition, looks). (various references) | |
Czech | nádherný kousek, krasavice, kráska (Belle), krása (amenity, fairness, fineness, glory). (various references) | |
Danish | skønhed. (various references) | |
Dutch | schoonheid (beautiful woman), knapheid (intelligence), fraaiheid. (various references) | |
Esperanto | belulino (beautiful woman), beleco. (various references) | |
Faeroese | vakurleiki. (various references) | |
Farsi | حسن , زیباءی (Glee, Grace, Pulchritude, Seeming, Sheen), زنان زیبا, خوشگلی , جمال . (various references) | |
Finnish | kaunotar (belle), kauneus (loveliness). (various references) | |
French | beauté (beautiful woman, Belle). (various references) | |
German | Schönheit (belle, bonniness, elegance, elegancy, fairness, fineness, handsomeness, loveliness, pulchritude). (various references) | |
Greek | καλλονή, ομορφιά (beautifulness, pleasantness). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | bukuri. (various references) | |
Hebrew | יופי (aesthetics, charm, fine, loveliness, lovely, niceness, prettiness, pulchritude, splendor, wonderful). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szépség (beaut, Belle, bloom, fairness, fineness, finery, finesse, niceness, pulchritude). (various references) | |
Icelandic | fegurð. (various references) | |
Indonesian | orang cantik, kepermaian, kecerlangan, keasrian. (various references) | |
Irish | breÚthacht, scéimh, maise, gnaoi, Úilleacht. (various references) | |
Italian | bellezza (elegancy, fairness, fineness, handsomeness, loveliness). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 麗人 (beautiful woman, belle). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | べっぴん (beautiful woman, pretty girl), けいこく (administration, advice, canyon, courtesan, government, prostitute, ravine, short period, siren, valley, warning), けいせい (administration, condition, conduct of state affairs, courtesan, formation, government, prospects, prostitute, siren, situation, sound of a valley stream, train line Tokyo - Narita, warning), ようしょく (cultivation, culture, features, important office, looks, raising, Western-style meal), れいじん (beautiful woman, belle, court musician, minstrel), れいしつ (charm, genius, your wife), えんび (charm), かれい (adding to one's years, butler, dried boiled rice, family custom, flatfish, flounder, good example, happy precedent, magnificence, sole, splendor, steward, turbot), たんれい (elegance, grace), び, びき (beautiful maiden), びけい (beautiful form or shape, beautiful scenery), びれい (gorgeous), びぼう (beautiful face, good looks, reminder), ビューティー , かじん (beautiful woman, my humble self, one's folks, poet, the family). (various references) | |
Korean | 아름다움 (Beauties). (various references) | |
Manx | bwoyid (good looks, loveliness, prettiness), aalinid (beautifulness), aalid (good looks, splendour). (various references) | |
Papiamen | beyesa. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eautybay.(various references) | |
Polish | piękność, ślicznotka (beautiful woman). (various references) | |
Portuguese | beleza (comeliness, fairness, glamor, glamour, grace, loveliness, niceness, prettiness). (various references) | |
Romanian | poezie (charm, line, parnassus, piece of poetry, poem, poesy, poetry, rep, rhyme, verse), mândreţe, mândrã (sweetheart), frumuseţe (fairness, fineness, good looks, goodliness, handsomeness, loftiness, loveliness, peach, picture). (various references) | |
Russian | красота (amenities, glory, good looks, loveliness, pulchritude). (various references) | |
Scottish | maise (comeliness, decoration, ornament). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | lepotica (belle), lepota (fairness, prettiness, pulchritude). (various references) | |
Spanish | belleza (garnish, garnishee, lovely, pulchritude). (various references) | |
Swedish | skönhet (Belle, beuty, charms, concinnity, fairness, loveliness, lovely, prettiness, pulchritude). (various references) | |
Tagalog | kagandáhan, gandá. (various references) | |
Turkish | nadide parça, güzellik (charms, comeliness, cosmetic, fairness, feminene charms, fineness, handsomeness, niceness, prettiness, pulchritude), güzeller güzeli (junoesque), güzel yan, güzel kız (a smasher of a girl, beautiful girl, dish, doll, eyefull, juicy girl, nymph, pretty girl, rose, smasher, sylph), güzel (appealing, beauteous, beautiful, beautifully, Belle, bonny, comely, fair, fine, goluptious, good, good looking, goodly, handsome, lovely, nice, nifty, personable, pleasant, plummy, prettily, pretty, pulchritudinous, sapid, shapely, sightly, smart, swell, the beautiful, well, well favored, well-favoured, winsome), afet (a bewitching beauty, bane, blight, calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, disaster, kayo, knockout, stunner). (various references) | |
Turkmen | owadanlyk, gцzellik, gцrk, gelюik. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | розкіш (fleshpots of egypt, luxury, magnificence), робити красивим, красуня (lovely), краса (amenities, dear, delight, handsomeness, queen), прикраса (adornment, apparel, attire, bijou, decking, decoration, embellishment, embroidery, fallal, garnish, garniture, Nick nack, ornament, outset, pretty, quip, set off), привабливість (affinity, amiability, appeal, appealingness, attraction, attractiveness, buxomness, charm, grace, loveliness, magnetism, pull, relish), принада (allurement, bait, decoy, delight, draw, inducement, nest egg, temptation). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vật đẹp nhan sắc chỉ là bề ngoài, vẻ đẹp (comeliness, handsomeness, loveliness, nattiness, pulchritude, sightliness), sắc đẹp (charm, sightliness), nhan sắc cái đẹp, cái hay người đẹp. (various references) | |
Welsh | tegwch (fairness), prydferthwch, mireinder (comeliness), harddwch, glendid (cleanness, fairness), ceinder (elegance), ardduniad (fame, sublimity), addfwynbryd. (various references) | |
Yucatec | hats'utsil. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | kallos. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Amphidasis betularia, Apocheima pedaria, Apocheima pilosaria, bellus, Biston betularia, Biston betularius, Biston hirtaria, Biston hirtarius, Bupalus piniaria, Bupalus piniarius, candor, candorem, decor, facie, faciebus, faciei, faciem, facies, faciesque, Fidonia pinaria, figura, figurae, figuram, figuras, forma, formae, formam, formellas, formositas, Lycia hirtarius, Pachys betularia, Panolis flammea, Panolis griseovariegata, Panolis piniperda, Phigalia pedaria, Phigalia pilosaria, pulchritudine, pulchritudinem, pulchritudini, pulchritudinis, pulchritudo, pulchritudo pulchritudinis, specie, speciebus, speciei, speciem, species, venustas. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | srayanaca. ( |
