BELLES Synonyms: 39 Similar and Opposite Words

belles

noun

plural of belle

as in peaches

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Noun

There isn’t a universal number of peaches that people with diabetes should eat each day.

— Morgan Pearson, Verywell Health, 16 Aug. 2026
Arrange peaches in bottom of skillet, overlapping as needed to fit.

— Erin Merhar, Southern Living, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of peaches

Noun

Why so many charmers, devious or otherwise?

— Anna Russell, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
The filmmaker’s passion for foolhardy underdogs and train-wreck charmers electrifies this tale of a postwar striver (an unbelievable Timothée Chalamet) trying to make his name in table tennis.

— David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2025

Definition of charmers

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Check out the garden’s iris tracker to see when those purple and white beauties are blooming (usually late June).

— The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2026
One of the beauties of this novel is how these experiences are used as framework, never distracting from the portrait of the Boltons that emerges.

— Deborah Johnson, Christian Science Monitor, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of beauties

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The first exhibitions will trace the evolution of human culture through storytelling, from ancient sculptures of gods and goddesses to Renaissance paintings to photographs, comics, and modern cinema.

— Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Did Penelope, Helen of Troy, Athena, Calypso, and the rest of the Greek gals and goddesses deserve to be more epic than the attractive but flattened handmaidens even IMAX couldn’t enhance?

— Lisa Henricksson, Air Mail, 8 Aug. 2026

Definition of goddesses

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With guest judge Brooke Shields in the house, the queens played the celebrity-impersonation competition with a twist.

— Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 16 Aug. 2026
Clean water and advanced medicine, for example, are now commonplace across much of the developed world despite once being a luxury even kings and queens couldn’t reliably access.

— Preston Fore, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of queens

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