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Styles style

Spelling: [stahyl]

IPA: /staɪl/

Styles is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 72 anagrams from letters in Styles (elssty).

Definitions for Styles

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 Styles

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

Examples for Styles

Both Riki and Avigayel, who sat in the styling chair, were unemployed and spent a lot of time hanging out at Linda's salon.

Urban received the archbishop magnificently, styling him the “pope and patriarch of another world,” and promising to help him.

With the right amount of make-up and styling, Sailor believes she can be whichever gender she is hired to be.

But do you ever hear of us Catholics, or Dissenters, styling this an extraordinary movement on the part of the Queen?

Pepa was not far wrong in styling General Patio a carpet-knight.

Thirty years ago, Lori Goldstein tried her hand at styling on a whim.

Hourani began to dabble with a myriad of artistic careers, from model scouting to styling to art direction.

Reverence,” said I, “what do you mean by styling me reverence?

I crave pardon for not styling you: Monsieur le Ministre; I could not.

With some styling under her belt, Tfank used her experience to build a career as a costume designer.