style

[stahyl] /staɪl/
noun
1.
a particular kind, sort, or type, as with reference to form, appearance, or character:
the baroque style; The style of the house was too austere for their liking.
2.
a particular, distinctive, or characteristic mode of action or manner of acting:
They do these things in a grand style.
3.
a mode of living, as with respect to expense or display.
4.
an elegant, fashionable, or luxurious mode of living:
to live in style.
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.:
to write in the style of Faulkner; a familiar style; a pompous, pedantic style.
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:
His writing is all style and no substance.
8.
manner or tone adopted in discourse or conversation:
a patronizing style of addressing others.
9.
a particular, distinctive, or characteristic mode or form of construction or execution in any art or work:
Her painting is beginning to show a personal style.
10.
a descriptive or distinguishing appellation, especially a legal, official, or recognized title:
a firm trading under the style of Smith, Jones, & Co.
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.
verb (used with object), styled, styling.
17.
to call by a given title or appellation; denominate; name; call:
The pope is styled His or Your Holiness.
18.
to design or arrange in accordance with a given or new style:
to style an evening dress; to style one's hair.
19.
to bring into conformity with a specific style or give a specific style to:
Please style this manuscript.
verb (used without object), styled, styling.
20.
to do decorative work with a style or stylus.
Idioms
21.
go out of style, to become unfashionable:
The jacket he's wearing went out of style ten years ago.
22.
in style, fashionable.
Origin
1250-1300; Middle English (noun) < Latin stylus, spelling variant of stilus tool for writing, hence, written composition, style; see stylus
Related forms
styleless, adjective
stylelessness, noun
stylelike, adjective
antistyle, noun
counterstyle, noun
misstyle, verb, misstyled, misstyling.
restyle, verb, restyled, restyling.
unstyled, adjective
well-styled, adjective
Can be confused
stile, style.
Synonyms
2. method, approach. 5. chic. See fashion. 9. touch, characteristic, mark. 22. designate, address.
British Dictionary definitions for in style

style

/staɪl/
noun
1.
a form of appearance, design, or production; type or make: a new style of house
2.
the way in which something is done: good or bad style
3.
the manner in which something is expressed or performed, considered as separate from its intrinsic content, meaning, etc
4.
a distinctive, formal, or characteristic manner of expression in words, music, painting, etc
5.
elegance or refinement of manners, dress, etc
6.
prevailing fashion in dress, looks, etc
7.
a fashionable or ostentatious mode of existence: to live in style
8.
the particular mode of orthography, punctuation, design, etc, followed in a book, journal, etc, or in a printing or publishing house
9.
(mainly Brit) the distinguishing title or form of address of a person or firm
10.
(botany) the stalk of a carpel, bearing the stigma
11.
(zoology) a slender pointed structure, such as the piercing mouthparts of certain insects
12.
a method of expressing or calculating dates See Old Style, New Style
13.
another word for stylus (sense 1)
14.
the arm of a sundial
verb (mainly transitive)
15.
to design, shape, or tailor: to style hair
16.
to adapt or make suitable (for)
17.
to make consistent or correct according to a printing or publishing style
18.
to name or call; designate: to style a man a fool
19.
(intransitive) to decorate objects using a style or stylus
Derived Forms
stylar, adjective
styler, noun
Word Origin
C13: from Latin stylus, stilus writing implement, hence characteristics of the writing, style
Word Origin and History for in style

style

n.

c.1300, stile, "designation, title, manner or mode of expression," from Old French estile "a stake, pale," from Latin stilus "stake, instrument for writing, manner of writing, mode of expression," from PIE *sti-lo-, from root *sti- "point, prick, pierce" (see stick (v.)). Spelling modified by influence of Greek stylos "pillar." Meaning "mode or fashion of life" is from 1770; that of "mode of dress" is from 1814.

v.

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.

in style in Science
style
(stīl)
The slender part of a flower pistil, extending from the ovary to the stigma. The pollen tube grows through the style delivering the pollen nuclei to the ovary. See more at flower, pollination.

Slang definitions & phrases for in style

style

verb

To act or play in a showy, flamboyant way; hot dog, showboat: You got an A in physics! You're styling! (1970s+ Black)

Related Terms

cramp someone's style, dog fashion, like it's going out of style

[put on style, ''to act in a boastful way,'' is found by 1871]


Idioms and Phrases with in style

in style

see under go out , def. 5.

style

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