"beauty is in the eye of the beholder" meaning in All languages combined

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Proverb [English]

IPA: /ˈbjuːti ɪz ɪn ðiː aɪ əv ðiː bɪˈhəʊldə/ Audio: en-us-beauty-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder.ogg [US]
Head templates: {{head|en|proverb|head=}} beauty is in the eye of the beholder, {{en-proverb}} beauty is in the eye of the beholder
  1. Different people have different views on what is beautiful; beauty is subjective. Categories (topical): Appearance Synonyms: beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder Related terms: beauty is in the eye of the beer holder, eye of the beholder Translations (people have different ideas of what is beautiful): الْجَمَالُ فِي عَيْنِ النَّاظِرِ (al-jamālu fī ʕayni n-nāẓiri) (Arabic), كل خنفوس عند امه غزال (kulla ḵanfūs ʕand ummu ḡzāl) [Moroccan-Arabic] (Arabic), القرد فعين امه غزال (el-qard f-ʕīn ummu ḡzāl) [Moroccan-Arabic] (Arabic), красота́та е в очи́те на гле́дащия (krasotáta e v očíte na glédaštija) (Bulgarian), 情人眼裡出西施 (Chinese Mandarin), 情人眼里出西施 (qíngrén yǎnlǐ chū Xī Shī) (Chinese Mandarin), 情人眼中出西施 (qíngrén yǎnzhōng chū Xīshī) (Chinese Mandarin), krása tkví v oku pozorovatele (Czech), skønhed ligger i øjet der ser (Danish), ilu on vaataja silmades (Estonian), kauneus on katsojan silmissä (Finnish), il n’y a point de laides amours (French), Schönheit liegt im Auge des Betrachters (German), die Schönheit liegt im Auge des Betrachters (German), खूबसूरती देखने वालों के आँखों में होती है (khūbsūrtī dekhne vālõ ke ā̃khõ mẽ hotī hai) (Hindi), a szépség a szemlélő szemében van (Hungarian), nochtann grá gnaoi (Irish), folaíonn grá gráin (Irish), is geal leis an bhfiach dubh a ghearrcach féin (Irish), la bellezza sta negli occhi di chi guarda (Italian), 아름다움은 그것을 보는 사람 눈에 달려있다 (areumdaumeun geugeoseul boneun saram nune dallyeoitda) (Korean), ايلوق بوروق د مات اورڠ تقکن سام د مات کيت [Jawi] (Malay), elok buruk di mata orang takkan sama di mata kita [Rumi] (Malay), nie to ładne, co ładne, ale to co się komu podoba (Polish), a beleza está nos olhos de quem vê [Brazil] (Portuguese), a beleza está nos olhos de quem a vê [Portugal] (Portuguese), frumusețea este în ochii privitorului (Romanian), не по хоро́шу мил, а по ми́лу хоро́ш (ne po xoróšu mil, a po mílu xoróš) (Russian), rása je v oku pozorovateľa (Slovak), vsake oči imajo svojega malarja (Slovene), skönheten ligger i betraktarens ögon (Swedish), güzellik bakanın gözündedir (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-beauty_is_in_the_eye_of_the_beholder-en-proverb-wOVxLC7J Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English proverbs, Mandarin terms with non-redundant manual transliterations

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    }
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  "word": "beauty is in the eye of the beholder"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (4d5d0bb and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.