Meaning
The quality of being lovely to look at or to listen to.
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Word origin
From Old French beaute, from Latin bellus, meaning pretty.
- Origin
- Old French
- Root
- beaute
- English cognates
- beautiful, belle
Grammar
Examples
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"The beauty of" is followed by the thing you are describing.
sunset.
Here "beauty" is uncountable, so it takes no plural.
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"A beauty" means a very fine example of something.
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beauty: worksheet, infographic and listicle
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 14, lesson 8: beauty, pound, discover and 7 more words.