[byoo-tee] 
| 1. | 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). |
| 2. | a beautiful person, esp. a woman. |
| 3. | a beautiful thing, as a work of art or a building. |
| 4. | Often, beauties. something that is beautiful in nature or in some natural or artificial environment. |
| 5. | an individually pleasing or beautiful quality; grace; charm: a vivid blue area that is the one real beauty of the painting. |
| 6. | Informal. a particular advantage: One of the beauties of this medicine is the freedom from aftereffects. |
| 7. | (usually used ironically) something extraordinary: My sunburn was a real beauty. |
| 8. | something excellent of its kind: My old car was a beauty. |
| beau·ty (byōō'tē) n. pl. beau·ties
[Middle English beaute, from Old French biaute, from Vulgar Latin *bellitās, from Latin bellus, pretty; see deu-2 in Indo-European roots.] |
beauty
In addition to the idiom beginning with beauty, also see that's the beauty of.