English

Alternative forms

• stile (obsolete)

Noun

style ‎(plural styles)

1. A manner of doing or presenting things, especially a fashionable one.
   • Chesterfield

     Style is the dress of thoughts.

   • C. Middleton

     the usual style of dedications

   • I. Disraeli

     It is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work.

   • Sir J. Reynolds

     The ornamental style also possesses its own peculiar merit.

2. flair; grace; fashionable skill

   As a dancer, he has a lot of style.

3. (botany) The stalk that connects the stigma(s) to the ovary in a pistil of a flower.
4. A traditional or legal term preceding a reference to a person who holds a title or post.
5. A traditional or legal term used to address a person who holds a title or post.

   the style of Majesty

   • Burke

     one style to a gracious benefactor, another to a proud, insulting foe

6. (nonstandard) A stylus.
7. (obsolete) A pen; an author's pen.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

8. A sharp-pointed tool used in engraving; a graver.
9. A kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument.
10. A long, slender, bristle-like process.

    the anal styles of insects

11. The pin, or gnomon, of a sundial, the shadow of which indicates the hour.
12. (computing) A visual or other modification to text or other elements of a document, such as bold or italic.

    applying styles to text in a wordprocessor

    Cascading Style Sheets

Hyponyms

• hairstyle
• New Style (N.S.)
• Old Style (O.S.)

Derived terms

• document-style
• hairstyle

Related terms

• style guide
• style manual
• stylish
• stylist

Translations

See also

• substance

Verb

style ‎(third-person singular simple present styles, present participle styling, simple past and past participle styled)

1. (transitive) To create or give a style, fashion or image to.
2. (transitive) To call or give a name or title to.
   • 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, chapter 10

     Marianne’s preserver, as Margaret, with more elegance than precision, stiled ^[sic] Willoughby, called at the cottage early the next morning to make his personal inquiries.

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Anagrams

French

Etymology

Borrowed from the Latin stilus.

Pronunciation

Noun

style m ‎(plural styles)

1. style (clarification of this French definition is being sought)

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowing from English style.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /is.t'aj.li/, /iʃ.t'aj.li/

Adjective

style ‎(invariable, comparable)

1. (Brazil, slang) stylish

   Com este calçado você fica style!‎

   With this shoe you become stylish!