See beauty is only skin deep in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for beauty is only skin deep meaning in English (4.1kB)
{
"etymology_text": "1600s.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "proverb",
"head": "beauty is only skin deep"
},
"expansion": "beauty is only skin deep",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "proverb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"parents": [
"Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English proverbs",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"parents": [
"Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Appearance",
"orig": "en:Appearance",
"parents": [
"Perception",
"Body",
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2014 September 25, Hugo Macdonald, “Could those utopian hoardings for new developments get any more nauseating?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
"text": "Isn’t it time the marketing budgets were reapportioned to the bones and muscles of the building themselves? At present, the beauty in London’s building boom is barely skin deep.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"What matters is a person's character, rather than their appearance."
],
"id": "en-beauty_is_only_skin_deep-en-proverb-4bkNCqkX",
"links": [
[
"character",
"character"
]
],
"related": [
{
"word": "it's what's inside that counts"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "beauty is only skin-deep"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"sense": "a person's character is more important than their outward appearance",
"word": "الجمال جمال الروح"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vǎnšnostta lǎže",
"sense": "a person's character is more important than their outward appearance",
"word": "външността лъже"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "a person's character is more important than their outward appearance",
"word": "skønhed kommer indefra"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "a person's character is more important than their outward appearance",
"word": "más peaca bheith buí tá na mílte damanta"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "a person's character is more important than their outward appearance",
"word": "ní hí an bhreáthacht a bhruitheann na prátaí"
},
{
"alt": "びじん と いう も かわ ひとえ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "bijin to iu mo kawa hitoe",
"sense": "a person's character is more important than their outward appearance",
"word": "美人というも皮一重"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "a person's character is more important than their outward appearance",
"tags": [
"Jawi"
],
"word": "لقسان بواه ددڤ, سوڠݢوه مره برباءو تيدق"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "a person's character is more important than their outward appearance",
"tags": [
"Jawi"
],
"word": "بواه ماسق مره بلوم تنتو مانيس راسڽ"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "a person's character is more important than their outward appearance",
"tags": [
"Rumi"
],
"word": "laksana buah dedap, sungguh merah berbau tidak"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "a person's character is more important than their outward appearance",
"tags": [
"Rumi"
],
"word": "buah masak merah belum tentu manis rasanya"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "a person's character is more important than their outward appearance",
"word": "pozory mylą"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a person's character is more important than their outward appearance",
"word": "quem vê cara não vê coração"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vnéšnostʹ obmánčiva",
"sense": "a person's character is more important than their outward appearance",
"word": "вне́шность обма́нчива"
}
]
}
],
"word": "beauty is only skin deep"
}
{
"etymology_text": "1600s.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "proverb",
"head": "beauty is only skin deep"
},
"expansion": "beauty is only skin deep",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "proverb",
"related": [
{
"word": "it's what's inside that counts"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English proverbs",
"English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Appearance"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2014 September 25, Hugo Macdonald, “Could those utopian hoardings for new developments get any more nauseating?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
"text": "Isn’t it time the marketing budgets were reapportioned to the bones and muscles of the building themselves? At present, the beauty in London’s building boom is barely skin deep.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"What matters is a person's character, rather than their appearance."
],
"links": [
[
"character",
"character"
]
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "beauty is only skin-deep"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"sense": "a person's character is more important than their outward appearance",
"word": "الجمال جمال الروح"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vǎnšnostta lǎže",
"sense": "a person's character is more important than their outward appearance",
"word": "външността лъже"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "a person's character is more important than their outward appearance",
"word": "skønhed kommer indefra"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "a person's character is more important than their outward appearance",
"word": "más peaca bheith buí tá na mílte damanta"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "a person's character is more important than their outward appearance",
"word": "ní hí an bhreáthacht a bhruitheann na prátaí"
},
{
"alt": "びじん と いう も かわ ひとえ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "bijin to iu mo kawa hitoe",
"sense": "a person's character is more important than their outward appearance",
"word": "美人というも皮一重"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "a person's character is more important than their outward appearance",
"tags": [
"Jawi"
],
"word": "لقسان بواه ددڤ, سوڠݢوه مره برباءو تيدق"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "a person's character is more important than their outward appearance",
"tags": [
"Jawi"
],
"word": "بواه ماسق مره بلوم تنتو مانيس راسڽ"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "a person's character is more important than their outward appearance",
"tags": [
"Rumi"
],
"word": "laksana buah dedap, sungguh merah berbau tidak"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "a person's character is more important than their outward appearance",
"tags": [
"Rumi"
],
"word": "buah masak merah belum tentu manis rasanya"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "a person's character is more important than their outward appearance",
"word": "pozory mylą"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a person's character is more important than their outward appearance",
"word": "quem vê cara não vê coração"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vnéšnostʹ obmánčiva",
"sense": "a person's character is more important than their outward appearance",
"word": "вне́шность обма́нчива"
}
],
"word": "beauty is only skin deep"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-24 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (82c8ff9 and f4967a5). 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.