noun

• A woman judged most beautiful in a beauty contest.

  ‘The winner of the international beauty competition held in Bangkok in May, Glebova was to open the festival last weekend sporting her official beauty queen's regalia.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Philippines Secretary of Tourism Araneta, a former beauty queen, was in town with a delegation of hoteliers, resort owners and casino operators.’
  • ‘The pool has been a huge success, attracting not just sun worshipping locals but television stars, film makers and reporters, and even dozens of women eager to be elected the beauty queen of the beach.’
  • ‘A former beauty queen, her demons began to get the better of her in mid-life.’
  • ‘From beauty queen to hideously disfigured freak, Brandy personifies our preoccupation with skin-deep vanity and proves that hell hath no fury like a woman's scorn.’
  • ‘As the 31-year-old talks about world peace, one might mistake her for a beauty queen rather than actual royalty.’
  • ‘And appearances help people get ahead in their careers, an extreme example being a former beauty queen from Venezuela who ran for president.’
  • ‘There were some rumours I never quite got to the bottom of concerning the Sultan's brother and a beauty queen, but he has since moved to England, not altering his lifestyle.’
  • ‘As it turns out, the beauty queen, on leave from finishing a doctorate in chemistry, never wore the sealskin garment by Dolorosa Nartok.’
  • ‘‘Sue was a Texas beauty queen, so I think I can kind of fit into that,’ she said.’
  • ‘Van Persie's dislike for the press has only deepened since he spent two weeks in a Rotterdam police cell last summer after allegations made by a former beauty queen.’
  • ‘How many changes of clothes did the former beauty queen in seat 30 row one go through today and who were the designers she was wearing?’
  • ‘The presenter, a former beauty queen, chose her favourite symbol for a ‘best of British’ logo to be used by an airline.’
  • ‘In Ankahee, releasing later this month, she plays a homemaker whose husband has an affair with a beauty queen.’
  • ‘Shop assistant Jeanette, from Accrington, was a former beauty queen who clinched two local carnival titles.’
  • ‘A former beauty queen, she looks like Grace Kelly and can organize the perfect charades party.’
  • ‘McCoist first met Allison, a former beauty queen, when he was playing for Sunderland aged 18.’
  • ‘Her aspirations are exactly what you'd expect from a budding beauty queen.’
  • ‘Like Blue Peter's first ever presenter Williams, Zoe is a beauty queen, winning the title of Miss Northern Ireland in 1999.’
  • ‘The only woman in his life is Grace, an aging beauty queen whom he looks after.’

  Synonyms

  beautiful woman, belle, vision, charmer, enchantress, Venus, goddess, beauty queen, English rose, picture, seductress