the quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind, whether arising from sensory manifestations (as shape, color, sound, etc.), a meaningful design or pattern, or something else (as a personality in which high spiritual qualities are manifest).
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a beautiful person, esp. a woman.
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a beautiful thing, as a work of art or a building.
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Often, beauties.something that is beautiful in nature or in some natural or artificial environment.
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an individually pleasing or beautiful quality; grace; charm: a vivid blue area that is the one real beauty of the painting.
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Informal. a particular advantage: One of the beauties of this medicine is the freedom from aftereffects.
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(usually used ironically) something extraordinary: My sunburn was a real beauty.
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something excellent of its kind: My old car was a beauty.
[Origin: 1225–75; ME be(a)ute < OF beaute; r. ME bealte < OF beltet < VL *bellitāt- (s. of *bellitās), equiv. to L bell(us) fine + -itāt--ity]
meadow beauty, any plant of the genus Rhexia, herbaceous perennials of wet places E of the Rockies, particularly damp pine barrens and sands along the southeast coast. A widespread species, R. virginica, is a common component of cranberry-bog vegetation. Meadow beauties (also called deer grass) are sometimes cultivated, often in bog gardens. They are classified in the division Magnoliophyta, class Magnoliopsida, order Myrtales, family Melastomataceae.
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