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Definition of Style
1. Noun. How something is done or how it happens. "In an abrasive fashion"
Exact synonyms: Fashion, Manner, Mode, Way
Generic synonyms: Property
Specialized synonyms: Artistic Style, Idiom, Drape, Fit, Form, Life Style, Life-style, Lifestyle, Modus Vivendi, Setup, Signature, Touch, Wise, Response
Derivative terms: Mannerly, Stylist, Stylize
Generic synonyms: Property
Specialized synonyms: Artistic Style, Idiom, Drape, Fit, Form, Life Style, Life-style, Lifestyle, Modus Vivendi, Setup, Signature, Touch, Wise, Response
Derivative terms: Mannerly, Stylist, Stylize
2. Verb. Designate by an identifying term. "They styled their nation `The Confederate States'"
3. Noun. A way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period. "All the reporters were expected to adopt the style of the newspaper"
Exact synonyms: Expressive Style
Generic synonyms: Communication
Category relationships: Art, Artistic Creation, Artistic Production, Language, Linguistic Communication, Music
Specialized synonyms: Allegory, Analysis, Bathos, Black Humor, Black Humour, Device, Eloquence, Fluency, Smoothness, Euphuism, Flatness, Expression, Formulation, Grandiloquence, Grandiosity, Magniloquence, Ornateness, Rhetoric, Headlinese, Jargon, Journalese, Legalese, Delivery, Manner Of Speaking, Speech, Genre, Music Genre, Musical Genre, Musical Style, Officialese, Pathos, Prose, Rhetoric, Coarseness, Saltiness, Self-expression, Sesquipedality, Terseness, Turn Of Expression, Turn Of Phrase, Vein, Verboseness, Verbosity, Genre, Literary Genre, Writing Style, Poetry
Derivative terms: Stylist, Stylist, Stylistic, Stylize
Generic synonyms: Communication
Category relationships: Art, Artistic Creation, Artistic Production, Language, Linguistic Communication, Music
Specialized synonyms: Allegory, Analysis, Bathos, Black Humor, Black Humour, Device, Eloquence, Fluency, Smoothness, Euphuism, Flatness, Expression, Formulation, Grandiloquence, Grandiosity, Magniloquence, Ornateness, Rhetoric, Headlinese, Jargon, Journalese, Legalese, Delivery, Manner Of Speaking, Speech, Genre, Music Genre, Musical Genre, Musical Style, Officialese, Pathos, Prose, Rhetoric, Coarseness, Saltiness, Self-expression, Sesquipedality, Terseness, Turn Of Expression, Turn Of Phrase, Vein, Verboseness, Verbosity, Genre, Literary Genre, Writing Style, Poetry
Derivative terms: Stylist, Stylist, Stylistic, Stylize
4. Verb. Make consistent with a certain fashion or style. "They style their hair "; "Style the dress"
Category relationships: Fashion
Specialized synonyms: Pompadour
Generic synonyms: Create, Make
Derivative terms: Styler, Stylist
Specialized synonyms: Pompadour
Generic synonyms: Create, Make
Derivative terms: Styler, Stylist
5. Noun. A particular kind (as to appearance). "This style of shoe is in demand"
6. Verb. Make consistent with certain rules of style. "Style a manuscript"
Generic synonyms: Write
7. Noun. The popular taste at a given time. "The 1920s had a style of their own"
Exact synonyms: Trend, Vogue
Generic synonyms: Appreciation, Discernment, Perceptiveness, Taste
Specialized synonyms: New Look, Fashion, Bandwagon
Derivative terms: Stylist, Stylize, Trendy
Generic synonyms: Appreciation, Discernment, Perceptiveness, Taste
Specialized synonyms: New Look, Fashion, Bandwagon
Derivative terms: Stylist, Stylize, Trendy
8. Noun. (botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma.
Category relationships: Botany, Phytology
Generic synonyms: Reproductive Structure
Group relationships: Pistil
Specialized synonyms: Stylopodium, Corn Silk, Cornsilk
Terms within: Stigma
Generic synonyms: Reproductive Structure
Group relationships: Pistil
Specialized synonyms: Stylopodium, Corn Silk, Cornsilk
Terms within: Stigma
9. Noun. Editorial directions to be followed in spelling and punctuation and capitalization and typographical display.
10. Noun. Distinctive and stylish elegance. "He wooed her with the confident dash of a cavalry officer"
11. Noun. A pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving. "He drew the design on the stencil with a steel stylus"
12. Noun. A slender bristlelike or tubular process. "A cartilaginous style"
Definition of Style
1. n. An instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets covered with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded, for the purpose of making erasures by smoothing the wax.
2. v. t. To entitle; to term, name, or call; to denominate.
Definition of Style
1. to name [v STYLED, STYLING, STYLES] - See also: name
Lexicographical Neighbors of Style
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