beauty queen

noun

: a beautiful and glamorous woman or girl
specifically : a winner of a beauty contest

Examples of beauty queen in a Sentence

every loving husband considers his wife a beauty queen
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Culpo previously dated singer Nick Jonas, who’s now married to actor Priyanka Chopra (Miss World 2000) and football veteran Tim Tebow, who is now married to South African beauty queen Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters (Miss Universe 2017). Christie D’zurilla, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2025 Image Blue, 40, a former model and beauty queen from Apple Valley, Calif., once doubted her path in opera, dispirited by a wave of rejections early in her career. Javier C. Hernández, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025 The anti-gay beauty queen who shaped the homophobic vitriol of 1970s Florida quietly died a month ago. Samantha Riedel, Them, 10 Jan. 2025 The former beauty queen, actress, and member of Canada’s parliament, is running to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Richard Johnson, New York Daily News, 9 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for beauty queen

Word History

First Known Use

1893, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of beauty queen was in 1893

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“Beauty queen.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beauty%20queen. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.

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