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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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On Wednesday, the beauty queens competed in the national costume showcase, which saw contestants donning flamboyant outfits designed to highlight their homelands. Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 21 Nov. 2025 After a major competition Thursday night at the Challenger Hall in Bangkok, the organization crowned its 2025 winner from a pool of beauty queens representing more than 130 nations from around the world. Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Nov. 2025 De Moura told the shocked panel the two snuck away to a motel with champagne, then threw in the random detail that the ex beauty queen gave the guy a coffee machine as a gift. Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 17 Nov. 2025 Her hair and makeup were styled to beauty queen perfection. Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 8 Nov. 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 29 Nov. 2025.

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