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style
English
Alternative forms
- stile (obsolete)
Noun
style (plural styles)
- 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.
- Chesterfield
- 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.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)
- 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
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- document-style
- hairstyle
Related terms
- style guide
- style manual
- stylish
- stylist
Translations
manner of doing things
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connector between ovary and stigma
term preceding a reference to a person
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term to address a person
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See also
Verb
style (third-person singular simple present styles, present participle styling, simple past and past participle styled)
- (transitive) To create or give a style, fashion or image to.
- (transitive) To call or give a name or title to.
- 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.
- 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, chapter 10
Translations
to create or give a style
to call or give a name or title