the combination of all the qualities of a person or thing that delight the senses and please the mind
2.
a very attractive and well-formed girl or woman
3. informal
an outstanding example of its kind
the horse is a beauty
4. informal
an advantageous feature
one beauty of the job is the short hours
5. informal, old-fashioned
a light-hearted and affectionate term of address
hello, my old beauty!
exclamation
6. (New Zealand English ˈbjuːdɪ)
an expression of approval or agreement
Also (Scot, Austral, and NZ): you beauty
Word origin
C13: from Old French biauté, from biau beautiful; see beau
Examples of 'beauties' in a sentence
beauties
And then, irrelevantly, he realized that they would both be beauties.
Thomas, Rosie THE WHITE DOVE
Despite their good fortune, the beauties face large tax demands for death duties.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Crack one open in any of these little beauties.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
None are staggering beauties in the classical sense, although each one is quite attractive.
Globe and Mail (2003)
Even fans of their rivals have to admit they've both scored absolute beauties.
The Sun (2012)
They were called 'medium beauties', and they were really good.
The Sun (2006)
These beauties - the last of the air-cooled 911s - have since doubled in value.
The Sun (2017)
Could it be playing matchmaker to join up two tech boom beauties?
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
All related terms of 'beauties'
beauty
Beauty is the state or quality of being beautiful .
you beauty
the combination of all the qualities of a person or thing that delight the senses and please the mind
bathing beauty
an attractive girl in a swimming costume
bathing belle
an attractive girl in a swimming costume
meadow beauty
any of a genus ( Rhexia ) of perennial North American plants of the melastome family, with pink or lavender flowers and large stamens
spring beauty
a pale green annual plant ( Claytonia perfoliata ) of the purslane family, originally North American, having small white flowers above fused leaves that encircle the stem
Camberwell beauty
a nymphalid butterfly , Nymphalis antiopa, of temperate regions, having dark purple wings with cream-yellow borders
mourning cloak
a common butterfly ( Nymphalis antiopa ) having purplish-brown wings with a wide yellow border , found throughout Europe and North America