beauty queen
noun
: a beautiful and glamorous woman or girl
specifically
: a winner of a beauty contest
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every loving husband considers his wife a beauty queen
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Then there are the younger Hoovers – the seven-year-old, would-be beauty queen Olive (Abigail Breslin) and Dwayne (Paul Dano), a Nietzsche-reading teen who has taken a vow of silence.
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John Wenzel, Denver Post, 30 Apr. 2026
Then there are the younger Hoovers - the seven-year-old, would-be beauty queen Olive (Abigail Breslin) and Dwayne (Paul Dano), a Nietzsche-reading teen who has taken a vow of silence.
—Jennifer McRae, CBS News, 30 Apr. 2026
Mellencamp grew up modestly but comfortably in the idyllic town of Seymour, Indiana, the son of a mother who was an artist and nascent beauty queen, and a father who worked a white-collar job with a local electrical contracting firm.
—Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026
The Dominican entered the pageant after winning Miss Universe Latina, the reality show on Telemundo, which selected a beauty queen to represent Latinos in the United States.
—Sarah Moreno, Miami Herald, 25 Apr. 2026
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John Wenzel, Denver Post, 30 Apr. 2026
Then there are the younger Hoovers - the seven-year-old, would-be beauty queen Olive (Abigail Breslin) and Dwayne (Paul Dano), a Nietzsche-reading teen who has taken a vow of silence.
—Jennifer McRae, CBS News, 30 Apr. 2026
Mellencamp grew up modestly but comfortably in the idyllic town of Seymour, Indiana, the son of a mother who was an artist and nascent beauty queen, and a father who worked a white-collar job with a local electrical contracting firm.
—Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026
The Dominican entered the pageant after winning Miss Universe Latina, the reality show on Telemundo, which selected a beauty queen to represent Latinos in the United States.
—Sarah Moreno, Miami Herald, 25 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for beauty queen
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“Beauty queen.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beauty%20queen. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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