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Definition of 'style'English
Noun
( en-noun)
A manner of doing or presenting things, especially a fashionable one.
* Chesterfield
- Style is the dress of thoughts.
* C. Middleton
- the usual style of dedications
* I. Disraeli
- It is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work.
* Sir J. Reynolds
- The ornamental style also possesses its own peculiar merit.
flair; grace; fashionable skill
- As a dancer, he has a lot of style .
(botany) The stalk that connects the stigma(s) to the ovary in a pistil of a flower.
A traditional or legal term preceding a reference to a person who holds a title or post.
A traditional or legal term used to address a person who holds a title or post.
- the style of Majesty
* Burke
- one style to a gracious benefactor, another to a proud, insulting foe
(nonstandard) A stylus.
(obsolete) A pen; an author's pen.
- (Dryden)
A sharp-pointed tool used in engraving; a graver.
A kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument.
A long, slender, bristle-like process.
- the anal styles of insects
The pin, or gnomon, of a sundial, the shadow of which indicates the hour.
(computing) A visual or other modification to text or other elements of a document, such as bold or italic.
- applying styles to text in a wordprocessor
- Cascading Style Sheets
Derived terms
* stylish
* stylist
* hairstyle
* style guide
* style manual
See also
* substance
Verb
( styl)
To create or give a style, fashion or image.
To call or give a name or title.
* 1811 , Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility , chapter 10
- Marianne’s preserver, as Margaret, with more elegance than precision, stiled (SIC) Willoughby, called at the cottage early the next morning to make his personal inquiries.
Anagrams
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