beauty
How to Use Beauty
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishThe quality of being lovely to look at, or a person/thing that has that quality.
"The beauty of X" is a common phrase meaning "the best/cleverest thing about X" — as in "the beauty of the plan is that it costs nothing."
Trace the full origin ↓Word Forms
more beauty comparative, beautied past tense, beauties plural, beauties singular, most beauty superlative
Fill the Gap
Can you complete this real example?
Tourists come from all over to see the _____ of the coastline.
Etymology
From Old French beauté, going back to a Latin form built on bellus ("beautiful, fine"). It came into English through Anglo-Norman French after the Norman Conquest and gradually replaced the native Old English word for the same idea.