beauty

1. (uncountable) The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness.Examples: "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: / Its loveliness increases; it will never / Pass into nothingness; but still will keep / A bower quiet for us, and a sleep / Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing."; "‘Say, hast thou seen enough!’ ‘I have looked on beauty, and I am blinded,’ I said hoarsely, lifting my hand to cover up my eyes."; "Warwick's first glance had revealed the fact that the young woman was strikingly handsome, with a stately beauty seldom encountered."Synonyms: good-lookingnessuncountable

2. (in the plural) Those aspects or elements that make someone or something beautiful.Examples: "There the roſy-finger'd Spring, by the liquid mirror of a cryſtalline pool, was attiring her fair daughters in ſeven-fold ornaments, while the love-whiſpering breezes ſtole kiſſes as they paſſed, and fanned their glowing beauties."countablein-pluraluncountable

3. (with the definite article) The excellence or genius of a scheme or decision.Examples: "The beauty of the deal is it costs nothing!"countableuncountable

4. (particle physics, obsolete) A beauty quark (now called bottom quark).countableobsoleteparticleuncountable

5. (obsolete) Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion.Examples: "Menander in the comedy brings in a man turning his wife from his house, because she stained her hair yellow, which was then the beauty."countableobsoleteuncountable

6. (archaic, in the plural) Beautiful passages or extracts of poetry.archaiccountablein-pluraluncountable