Style

Quick meaning: Style is a noun meaning Senses relating to a thin, pointed object.

Meaning

Senses relating to a thin, pointed object.

More Meanings

1. (by extension from sense 1.1) A particular manner of expression in writing or speech, especially one regarded as good.
2. A particular manner of creating, doing, or presenting something, especially a work of architecture or art.
3. (transitive) To design, fashion, make, or arrange in a certain way or form (style).
4. (transitive, formal) To call or give a name or title to.
5. (intransitive, US, informal) To act in a way which seeks to show that one possesses style.
6. (transitive, informal) To create for, or give to, someone a style, fashion, or image, particularly one which is regarded as attractive, tasteful, or trendy.

Example Sentences

May I not vvrite in such a ſtile as this? / In ſuch a method too, and yet not miſs / Mine end, thy good? vvhy may it not be done?

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This style was sometimes called Palladian from the fact of [Andrea] Palladio having fully developed and absorbed into his own system the styles of his great predecessors of the [Florentine] school, [...]

After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style; facts, scientific discoveries, and every kind of information, may be seized by all; but an author's diction cannot be taken from him.

Word Forms

• styles
• stylee
• styling
• styled

Synonyms for style

Depending on context, synonyms include designate, dub, name, bename, call, clepe.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include stylus, dash, way, elan, cut, trend.

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