style
pronunciation
How to pronounce style in British English:
UK [staɪl]
How to pronounce style in American English:
US [staɪl]
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- Noun:
- a particular kind (as to appearance)
- how something is done or how it happens
- 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
- distinctive and stylish elegance
- the popular taste at a given time
- (botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma
- editorial directions to be followed in spelling and punctuation and capitalization and typographical display
- a pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving
- a slender bristlelike or tubular process
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- Verb:
- designate by an identifying term
- make consistent with a certain fashion or style
- make consistent with certain rules of style
Word Origin
- style
- style: [13] Style comes via Old French stile from Latin stilus, which denoted a ‘pointed writing instrument’. It came to be used metaphorically for ‘something written’, and hence for ‘manner of writing’. The spelling with y instead of i arose from the misapprehension that the word was of Greek origin. It also invaded stylus [18], which was acquired directly from Latin.=> stimulate, stylus
- style (n.)
- early 14c., stile, "writing instrument, pen, stylus; piece of written discourse, a narrative, treatise;" also "characteristic rhetorical mode of an author, manner or mode of expression," and "way of life, manner, behavior, conduct," from Old French stile, estile "style, fashion, manner; a stake, pale," from Latin stilus "stake, instrument for writing, manner of writing, mode of expression," perhaps from the same source as stick (v.)). Spelling modified incorrectly by influence of Greek stylos "pillar," which probably is not directly related. As distinguished from substance, 1570s. Meaning "mode of dress" is from 1814.
- style (v.)
- c. 1500, "address with a title;" 1560s, "to give a name to," from style (n.). Meaning "to arrange in (fashionable) style" (especially of hair) is attested from 1934. Slang sense of "act or play in a showy way" is by 1974, U.S. Black slang. Related: Styled; styling.
Synonym
kind execution quality genre sort cut pattern approach variety line fashion mode expression method design system manner form type way
stylishness spruceness modishness smartness trimness fashionableness chic dressiness urbaneness class sharpness neatness nattiness elegance dapperness polish flashiness grace refinement
Example
- 1. The style was maddeningly jaunty .
- 2. The style is your vision .
- 3. Emphasis hierarchy avoids style confusion .
- 4. Continuation-passing style is that foundation .
- 5. This is the principle behind japanese style homes .