The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness.
1988, "… beauty and recollection, like danger, glamour, greed, hunger- everything but disappointment and desire- were concepts belonging to other people.” -Second Son, Robert Ferro
Someone who is beautiful.
Brigitte Bardot was a renowned beauty.
Something that is particularly good or pleasing.
What a goal! That was a real beauty!
An excellent or egregious example of something.
(with the definite article) The excellence or genius of a scheme or decision.
The beauty of the deal is it costs nothing!
A beauty quark (now called bottom quark).
Beauty treatment; cosmetology.
Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion.
(in the plural) Beautiful passages or extracts of poetry.
To make beautiful.