beauty pageant

English

Noun

beauty pageant (plural beauty pageants)

A competition in which participants compete for a determination that one is the most physically attractive.

Synonyms

beauty contest

Translations

competition on attractiveness

Arabic: مُسَابَقَة اَلْجَمَال f (musābaqat al-jamāl)
Basque: ederren lehiaketa
Catalan: concurs de bellesa m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 選美比賽 / 选美比赛 (zh) (xuǎnměi bǐsài), 選美 / 选美 (zh) (xuǎnměi), 選美活動 / 选美活动 (xuǎnměi huódòng)
Danish: skønhedskonkurrence c
Dutch: schoonheidswedstrijd (nl)
Esperanto: beleco-konkurso
Estonian: iludusvõistlus
Finnish: kauneuskilpailu (fi)
French: concours de beauté (fr) m
German: Schönheitswettbewerb (de) m
Greek: διαγωνισμός ομορφιάς m (diagonismós omorfiás), καλλιστεία (el) n pl (kallisteía)
Hebrew: תחרות יופי
Hindi: सौंदर्य प्रतियोगिता (saundarya pratiyogitā)
Hungarian: szépségverseny (hu)
Icelandic: fegurðarkeppni f, fegurðarsamkeppni f
Indonesian: ajang kecantikan, kontes kecantikan
Irish: comórtas áilleachta
Italian: concorso di bellezza m
Japanese: 美人コンテスト (bijin kontesuto), ミス・コンテスト (misu-kontesuto)
Korean: 미인 선발 대회(美人選拔大會) (miin seonbal daehoe), 미인 대회(美人大會) (miin daehoe), 미인 콘테스트 (miin konteseuteu)
Latvian: skaistuma konkurss m
Polish: konkurs piękności (pl) m
Portuguese: concurso de beleza m
Romanian: concurs de frumusețe
Russian: ко́нкурс красоты́ m (kónkurs krasotý)
Spanish: concurso de belleza m
Swedish: skönhetstävling (sv)
Tagalog: paringal, timpalak-kagandahan
Turkish: güzellik yarışması (tr)
Vietnamese: cuộc thi sắc đẹp (vi)