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Definition of 'style'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) style
a particular type or sort, with reference to form, appearance, or character.

2.  style
a particular, distinctive, or characteristic mode or manner of acting:
to do things in a grand style.

3.  style
prevailing fashion, as in dress, esp. approved fashion; smartness:
out of style.

4.  style
an elegant, fashionable, or luxurious mode of living:
to live in style.

5.  style
a mode of expressing thought in writing or speaking, esp. as characteristic of a group, person, etc.

6.  style
a mode or form of design, construction, or execution in any art or work, esp. as characteristic of a person, group, period, etc.:
the baroque style; the Georgian style of architecture.

7.  style
a distinctive quality of originality, elegance, or flair:
a person with style.

8.  style
a person's characteristic tastes, attitudes, and mode of behavior:
It's not his style to flatter people.

9.  style
a descriptive or distinguishing appellation, esp. a legal, official, or recognized title.

10.  style
the gnomon of a sundial.

11.  style
a method of reckoning time.

12.  style
a narrow, cylindrical extension of the pistil that, when present, bears the stigma at its apex.

13.  style
Zool. a small, pointed process or part.

14.  style
the rules or customs of spelling, punctuation, and the like, observed by a publisher.

15. (v.t.) style
to call by a given title or appellation; designate; name.

16.  style
to design or arrange in accordance with a given or new style:
to style one's hair.

17.  style
to bring into conformity with a specific style:
to style a manuscript.

Etymology: (1250–1300; ME (n.) < L stylus, sp. var. of stilus tool for writing, hence, written composition, style; see stylus)

Definition of 'style'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) manner, mode, style, way, fashion
how something is done or how it happens
"her dignified manner"; "his rapid manner of talking"; "their nomadic mode of existence"; "in the characteristic New York style"; "a lonely way of life"; "in an abrasive fashion"

2. (noun) expressive style, style
a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period
"all the reporters were expected to adopt the style of the newspaper"

3. (noun) style
a particular kind (as to appearance)
"this style of shoe is in demand"

4. (noun) vogue, trend, style
the popular taste at a given time
"leather is the latest vogue"; "he followed current trends"; "the 1920s had a style of their own"

5. (noun) style
(botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma

6. (noun) style
editorial directions to be followed in spelling and punctuation and capitalization and typographical display

7. (noun) dash, elan, flair, panache, style
distinctive and stylish elegance
"he wooed her with the confident dash of a cavalry officer"

8. (noun) stylus, style
a pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving
"he drew the design on the stencil with a steel stylus"

9. (verb) style
a slender bristlelike or tubular process
"a cartilaginous style"

10. (verb) style, title
designate by an identifying term
"They styled their nation `The Confederate States'"

11. (verb) style
make consistent with a certain fashion or style
"Style my hair"; "style the dress"

12. (verb) style
make consistent with certain rules of style
"style a manuscript"

Definition of 'style'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) style
the way sth is designed or made
the styles that were fashionable then; European-style shoes

2.  style
a particular way of doing sth
the team's aggressive style of playing; Talking on the phone for hours is not my style.

3.  style
showing imagination and good taste in dress, design, decoration, etc.
She dresses with great style.; The old cars have real style.

4.  style
in style/out of style
fashionable/not fashionable
clothes that are in style

5. (verb) style
to design or shape sth in a particular way
I love the way she styled your hair.

Definition of 'style'

Webster Dictionary

1. (verb) style
an instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets covered with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded, for the purpose of making erasures by smoothing the wax

2. (verb) style
hence, anything resembling the ancient style in shape or use

3. (verb) style
a pen; an author's pen

4. (verb) style
a sharp-pointed tool used in engraving; a graver

5. (verb) style
a kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument

6. (verb) style
a long, slender, bristlelike process, as the anal styles of insects

7. (verb) style
the pin, or gnomon, of a dial, the shadow of which indicates the hour. See Gnomon

8. (verb) style
the elongated part of a pistil between the ovary and the stigma. See Illust. of Stamen, and of Pistil

9. (verb) style
mode of expressing thought in language, whether oral or written; especially, such use of language in the expression of thought as exhibits the spirit and faculty of an artist; choice or arrangement of words in discourse; rhetorical expression

10. (verb) style
mode of presentation, especially in music or any of the fine arts; a characteristic of peculiar mode of developing in idea or accomplishing a result

11. (verb) style
conformity to a recognized standard; manner which is deemed elegant and appropriate, especially in social demeanor; fashion

12. (verb) style
mode or phrase by which anything is formally designated; the title; the official designation of any important body; mode of address; as, the style of Majesty

13. (verb) style
a mode of reckoning time, with regard to the Julian and Gregorian calendars

14. (verb) style
to entitle; to term, name, or call; to denominate

Definitions of 'style'

The Roycroft Dictionary

style
1. The brogue of the mind.

2. A certain manner or deportment which emanates from those who have neither manner nor deportment.

3. A peculiar and individual manner of doing the unnecessary.

Translation of 'style'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a manner or way of doing something, eg writing, speaking, painting, building etc different styles of architecture; What kind of style are you going to have your hair cut in?; a new hairstyle.
Afrikaans: styl	Arabic: أسْلوب	Bulgarian: вид
Brazilian: estilo	Czech: styl;účes	German: der Stil
Danish: stil; -stil; frisure	Greek: ύφος, τεχνοτροπία, στιλ	Spanish: estilo
Estonian: stiil	Farsi: سبك	Finnish: tyyli
French: style	Hebrew: סִגנוֹן	Hindi: ढंग, तरीका, रीति, रंग-ढंग
Croatian: stil, način	Hungarian: stílus	Indonesian: gaya
Icelandic: stíll	Italian: stile	Japanese: 様式
Korean: 형식	Lithuanian: stilius, fasonas	Latvian: stils
Malay: gaya	Dutch: stijl	Norwegian: stil; mote, fasong
Polish: styl, fason	Persian: سبك	Pashto: سبک، سټایل
Portuguese: estilo	Romanian: stil	Russian: стиль; манера; фасон
Slovak: štýl; účes	Slovenian: slog	Serbian: stil
Swedish: stil, frisyr	Thai: รูปแบบ	Turkish: üslup, tarz, biçim
Taiwanese: 風格，式樣	Ukrainian: стиль; склад	Urdu: طرز یا اسلوب
Vietnamese: vn phong, phong cách, loạ	Chinese: 风格，式样
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