Definitions for style

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style style

Spelling: [stahyl]

IPA: /staɪl/

Style is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 59 anagrams from letters in style (elsty).

Definitions for style

noun

1. a particular kind, sort, or type, as with reference to form, appearance, or character:
2. a particular, distinctive, or characteristic mode of action or manner of acting:
3. a mode of living, as with respect to expense or display.
4. an elegant, fashionable, or luxurious mode of living:
5. a mode of fashion, as in dress, especially good or approved fashion; elegance; smartness.
6. the mode of expressing thought in writing or speaking by selecting and arranging words, considered with respect to clearness, effectiveness, euphony, or the like, that is characteristic of a group, period, person, personality, etc.:
7. those components or features of a literary composition that have to do with the form of expression rather than the content of the thought expressed:
8. manner or tone adopted in discourse or conversation:
9. a particular, distinctive, or characteristic mode or form of construction or execution in any art or work:
10. a descriptive or distinguishing appellation, especially a legal, official, or recognized title:
11. stylus (defs 1, 2).
12. the gnomon of a sundial.
13. a method of reckoning time. Compare New Style, old style (def 2).
14. Zoology. a small, pointed process or part.
15. Botany. a narrow, usually cylindrical and more or less filiform extension of the pistil, which, when present, bears the stigma at its apex.
16. the rules or customs of typography, punctuation, spelling, and related matters used by a newspaper, magazine, publishing house, etc., or in a specific publication.

Idioms

1. go out of style, to become unfashionable:
2. in style, fashionable.

verb (used with object)

1. to call by a given title or appellation; denominate; name; call:
2. to design or arrange in accordance with a given or new style:
3. to bring into conformity with a specific style or give a specific style to:

verb (used without object)

1. to do decorative work with a style or stylus.

Origin of style

1250-1300; Middle English (noun) Latin stylus, spelling variant of stilus tool for writing, hence, written composition, style; see stylus

Examples for style

Both rooms were large and furnished in a style that had been supremely luxurious in 1878.

But throughout the series so far, its style has also had a profound story of its own to tell.

Her style, much like her diminutive nickname, is best described as “Hamptons twee”—preppy and peppy.

Although he brings a Western spin to things, he seems equally inspired by the local sense of style.

Who knew that “we shall overcome” meant “we, the few, shall book covers every decade or so, maybe, sometimes, if we are in style.”

These are my reasons in brief, for the alteration of my style.

Thoroughbred is the word for her, style and action, as the horse people say, perfect.

Their policies will be similar—standing up for the little guy—though their style is very different.

But then, you are told that these objects are not in the style and taste of the people.

"You see we do not follow the English style," said the smooth hostess to Philip.