beauty
part of speech
noun (beauty, uncountable; a beauty, beauties)
meaning for a pupil
1) The quality of being very pleasing to look at, hear or think about. tree →
2) A very beautiful person or thing (She is a real beauty). tree →
3) (informal) An excellent example of something (That catch is a beauty!). tree →
4) The best or nicest part of something (The beauty of the plan is that it is cheap). tree →
5) (Australia, NZ, informal) «Beauty!» or «you beauty!» means great, well done. tree →
sense in the lessons
In art, nature and stories: the beauty of a sunset. In everyday talk: «beauty products», «beauty salon». In fairy tales: Beauty and the Beast, Sleeping Beauty. Phrase: beauty is in the eye of the beholder (people find different things beautiful).
examples
- The beauty of the waterfall took our breath away. tree →
- Sleeping Beauty slept for a hundred years. tree →
- That new bike is a real beauty. tree →
- The beauty of this game is that anyone can play. tree →
- Beauty is only skin deep. tree →
- You beauty! We won the match! tree →
- Mum bought some beauty cream at the shop. tree →
- That's what I call real beauty." tree →
note
Uncountable when it means the quality; countable (a beauty, beauties) for a person or thing. Adjective: beautiful. Spelling: b-e-a-u-t-y. «Beauty is only skin deep» means looks matter less than character.
In the corpora
- «You beauty, you got it!» he shouts (Australian for brilliant, well done).
- And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, for splendour and for beauty.
- Thy beauty, O Israel, upon thy high places is slain!
- Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty; they shall behold a land stretching afar.
- Thy borders are in the heart of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «beauty» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.