MAKEOVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does makeover mean? 

• MAKEOVER (noun)
  The noun MAKEOVER has 2 senses:

1. an overall beauty treatment (involving a person's hair style and cosmetics and clothing) intended to change or improve a person's appearance

2. a complete reconstruction and renovation of something

  Familiarity information: MAKEOVER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAKEOVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An overall beauty treatment (involving a person's hair style and cosmetics and clothing) intended to change or improve a person's appearance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

beauty treatment (enhancement of someone's personal beauty)

Derivation:

make over (make new)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A complete reconstruction and renovation of something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

the blighted neighborhood underwent a total makeover

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

reconstruction (the activity of constructing something again)

Derivation:

make over (make new)

 Context examples 

At least some of these early "dead" disk galaxies must have gone through major makeovers.

(Massive Dead Disk Galaxy Challenges Theories of Galaxy Evolution, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)