Definitions for Style
staɪlstyle

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:2.8 / 4 votes

1. manner, mode, style, way, fashionnoun

   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. expressive style, stylenoun

   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. stylenoun

   a particular kind (as to appearance)

   "this style of shoe is in demand"

4. vogue, trend, stylenoun

   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. stylenoun

   (botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma

6. stylenoun

   editorial directions to be followed in spelling and punctuation and capitalization and typographical display

7. dash, elan, flair, panache, stylenoun

   distinctive and stylish elegance

   "he wooed her with the confident dash of a cavalry officer"

8. stylus, stylenoun

   a pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving

   "he drew the design on the stencil with a steel stylus"

9. styleverb

   a slender bristlelike or tubular process

   "a cartilaginous style"

10. style, titleverb

    designate by an identifying term

    "They styled their nation `The Confederate States'"

11. styleverb

    make consistent with a certain fashion or style

    "Style my hair"; "style the dress"

12. styleverb

    make consistent with certain rules of style

    "style a manuscript"

WiktionaryRate this definition:1.5 / 2 votes

1. stylenoun

   A manner of doing things, especially in a fashionable one.

2. stylenoun

   the stalk that connects the stigma(s) to the ovary in a pistil of a flower.

3. stylenoun

   A traditional or legal term preceding a reference to a person who holds a title or post.

4. stylenoun

   A traditional or legal term used to address a person who holds a title or post.

5. stylenoun

   stylus

6. styleverb

   To create or give a style, fashion or image.

7. styleverb

   To call or give a name or title.

8. Etymology: From estile (French: style), from stilus.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Stylenoun

   Etymology: stylus, Latin.

   1. Manner of writing with regard to language.

   Happy
   That can translate the stubbornness of fortune
   Into so quiet, and so sweet a style. William Shakespeare.

   Their beauty I will rather leave to poets, than venture upon so tender and nice a subject with my severer style. More.

   Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a stile. Jonathan Swift.

   Let some lord but own the happy lines,
   How the wit brightens, and the style refines. Alexander Pope.

   2. Manner of speaking appropriate to particular characters.

   No style is held for base, where love well named is. Philip Sidney.

   There was never yet philosopher,
   That could endure the toothach patiently,
   However they have writ the style of gods,
   And make a pish at chance and sufferance. William Shakespeare.

   3. Title; appellation.

   Ford’s a knave, and I will aggravate his stile; thou shalt know him for knave and cuckold. William Shakespeare.

   The king gave them in his commission the style and appellation which belonged to them. Edward Hyde.

   O virgin! or what other name you bear
   Above that style; O more than mortal fair!
   Let not an humble suppliant sue in vain. John Dryden, Æn.

   Propitious hear our pray’r,
   Whether the style of Titan please thee more,
   Whose purple rays th’ Achæmenes adore. Alexander Pope, Statius.

   4. Course of writing. Unusual.

   While his thoughts the ling’ring day beguile,
   To gentle Arcite let us turn our style. Dryden.

   5. A pointed iron used anciently in writing on tables of wax.6. Any thing with a sharp point, as a graver; the pin of a dial.

   Placing two stiles or needles of the same steel, touched with the same loadstone, when the one is removed but half a span, the other would stand like Hercules’s pillars. Brown.

   7. The stalk which rises from amid the leaves of a flower.

   Style is the middle prominent part of the flower of a plant, which adheres to the fruit or seed: ’tis usually slender and long, whence it has its name. John Quincy.

   The figure of the flower-leaves, stamina, apices, stile, and seed-vessel. John Ray.

   8. Style of Court,is properly the practice observed by any court in its way of proceeding. John Ayliffe Parergon.

2. To Styleverb

   To call; to term; to name.

   Etymology: from the noun.

   The chancellor of the Exchequer they had no mind should be styled a knight. Edward Hyde.

   Err not that so shall end
   The strife which thou call’st evil, but we style
   The strife of glory. John Milton, Paradise Lost.

   Fortune’s gifts, my actions
   May stile their own rewards. John Denham, Sophy.

   Whoever backs his tenets with authorities, thinks he ought to carry the cause, and is ready to stile it impudence in any one who shall stand out. John Locke.

   His conduct might have made him stil’d
   A father, and the nymph his child. Jonathan Swift.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Style

   Style is a song by British R&B/garage group Mis-Teeq. It was written by Stargate duo Mikkel Eriksen and Tor Erik Hermansen, along with Hallgeir Rustan, and band members Sabrina Washington and Alesha Dixon for the re-release edition of their second album, Eye Candy (2003) and features a sample of the song "West End Girls" by the Pet Shop Boys as it was co-written by Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe. The track marked the third and final single from the album, and was also one of the last singles released by the group following their split in 2005. Upon its release, "Style" debuted and peaked at number 13 on the UK Singles Chart, becoming the group's only single not to enter the top ten. It also reached number 18 in Finland, becoming the group's second and most successful single on the Finnish chart.

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1. style

   Style refers to a distinctive manner of expression or method of doing something, often related to creativity, art, fashion, or decor. This can involve various elements like design, technique, language, or presentation, which represent individuality or are characteristic of a particular person, group, period, or context. It can also relate to personal preferences in clothing, lifestyle, behavior, or social etiquettes.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Styleverb

   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. Styleverb

   hence, anything resembling the ancient style in shape or use

3. Styleverb

   a pen; an author's pen

4. Styleverb

   a sharp-pointed tool used in engraving; a graver

5. Styleverb

   a kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument

6. Styleverb

   a long, slender, bristlelike process, as the anal styles of insects

7. Styleverb

   the pin, or gnomon, of a dial, the shadow of which indicates the hour. See Gnomon

8. Styleverb

   the elongated part of a pistil between the ovary and the stigma. See Illust. of Stamen, and of Pistil

9. Styleverb

   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. Styleverb

    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. Styleverb

    conformity to a recognized standard; manner which is deemed elegant and appropriate, especially in social demeanor; fashion

12. Styleverb

    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. Styleverb

    a mode of reckoning time, with regard to the Julian and Gregorian calendars

14. Styleverb

    to entitle; to term, name, or call; to denominate

FreebaseRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Style

   A style of office, or honorific, is a legal, official, or recognized title. A style, by tradition or law, precedes a reference to a person who holds a post or political office, and is sometimes used to refer to the office itself. An honorific can also be awarded to an individual in a personal capacity. Such styles are particularly associated with monarchies, where they may be used by a wife of an office holder or of a prince of the blood, for the duration of their marriage. They are also almost universally used for presidents in republics and in many countries for members of legislative bodies, higher-ranking judges and senior constitutional office holders. Leading religious figures also have styles.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Style

   stīl, n. anything long and pointed, esp. a pointed tool for engraving or writing: manner of writing, mode of expressing thought in language: the distinctive manner peculiar to an author: characteristic or peculiar mode of expression and execution (in the fine arts): title: mode of address: practice, esp. in a law-court: manner: form: fashion: mode of reckoning time—Old Style, when the system follows the Julian calendar, as still in Russia, and in England before 2d September 1752; New Style, when the system follows the Gregorian calendar (eleven days were omitted, thus the 3d September became the 14th): the pin of a dial: (bot.) the middle portion of the pistil, between the ovary and the stigma (see Pistil).—v.t. to entitle in addressing or speaking of: to name or designate.—adjs. Sty′lar, pertaining to the pin of a dial; Sty′late, like a style, styliform.—n. Sty′let, a stiletto: the perforator of a trocar, a probe: a little style.—adjs. Sty′letiform, shaped like a stylet; Stylif′erous, having a style, stylate; Sty′liform, style-shaped; Sty′lish, displaying style: fashionable: showy: pretending to style.—adv. Sty′lishly.—ns. Sty′lishness; Sty′list, one with a distinctive and fine literary style.—adj. Stylist′ic.—adv. Stylist′ically.—adj. Sty′loid, resembling a style or pen.—n. Sty′lus, a style, pen. [Fr.,—L. stilus.]

The Roycroft DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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.

Editors ContributionRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. style

   A way of creating.

   She was a young woman and we did love her style.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on February 10, 2020  

EntomologyRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Style

   in Aphids, the slender tubular process at the end of the abdomen: in Coccids, a long spine-like appendage at the end of the abdomen of the male; = genital spike: in Diptera, the ovipositor (Loew); the single immovable organ immediately below the forceps in male Tipulidae (O-S.) a thickened jointed arista at or near the tip of the third antennal joint in the plural form applied to small, usually pointed, exarticulate appendages, most frequently found on the terminal segments of abdomen.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. STYLE

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Style is ranked #61745 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Style surname appeared 325 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Style.
   
   70.7% or 230 total occurrences were White.
   19.6% or 64 total occurrences were Black.
   4.6% or 15 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   2.7% or 9 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Style' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #908

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Style' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1866

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Style' in Nouns Frequency: #345

How to pronounce Style?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say Style in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Style in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Style in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of Style in a Sentence

1. Jennifer Sclafani:

   In general, Trump's rhetorical style as president can be seen as an extension of President Trump style as an executive in the business world. This is especially apparent when we compare President Trump style to previous presidents and President Trump opponents in the 2016 election, by contrast, others come off as overly hesitant, academic, or wonkish. President Trump doesn't bother to get bogged down by details... President Trump presents President Trump as a visionary type of leader, focused solely on President Trump vision for the future of the country.

2. Gore Vidal:

   Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn.

3. Alyssa Milano:

   As a mom I would so love to have an award ceremony like the VMAs to watch with my kids because my son, who is 4, loves music so much, but obviously I don’t feel comfortable, we saw a little of it because my husband was watching it for work purposes, my son says ‘ why are there so many holes in [ Miley Cyrus' ] outfit ? ’ which I thought was amazing. So speaking of style, that’s her own personal style.

4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:

   If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.

5. William R Allen:

   A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.

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