PULCHRITUDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pulchritude mean? 

• PULCHRITUDE (noun)
  The noun PULCHRITUDE has 1 sense:

1. physical beauty (especially of a woman)

  Familiarity information: PULCHRITUDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PULCHRITUDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Physical beauty (especially of a woman)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("pulchritude" is a kind of...):

beauty (the qualities that give pleasure to the senses)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pulchritude"):

curvaceousness; shapeliness; voluptuousness (the quality of having a well-rounded body)

Derivation:

pulchritudinous (used of persons only; having great physical beauty)