style

• stile (obsolete)

From Middle English stile, style, from Medieval Latin stylus and Old French style, stile, estile; both ultimately from Latin stilus (“stake; pale; pointed instrument; tool for writing”), from Proto-Indo-European *stey- (“to stick; compress; condense”). Cognate with German Stiel (“stalk; handle”).

• IPA^(key): /staɪl/, enPR: stīl

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• Rhymes: -aɪl
• Homophone: stile

style (countable and uncountable, 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

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

• substance

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, Austen, Jane, chapter 10, in Sense and Sensibility:

     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.

• (to call or give a name or title): designate, dub, name; see also Thesaurus:denominate

• streamstyle

• style on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• lyest, tyles

• stile (obsolete)

Borrowed from Latin stilus.

• IPA^(key): /stil/

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style m (plural styles)

1. style (manner of doing something)
2. (botany) style (of a flower)
3. fashion, trend, style
4. (colloquial) style (personal comportment)
5. flair
6. (art) style; method characteristic of an artist; artistic manner or characteristic by which an artistic movement may be defined
7. gnomon, style (needle of a sundial)
8. (dated, historical) stylus, style (implement for writing on tablets)
9. complement of jargon particular to a field; style (manner of writing specific to a field or discipline)
10. sort, type; category of things

• (manner of doing): façon, manière
• (artistic characteristic): genre
• (needle of a sundial): aiguille (d'un cadran), gnomon
• (stylus): stylet
• (category): espèce, genre, sorte, type

• “style” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Old English stiġel.

style

1. Alternative form of stile (“stile”)

From Medieval Latin stylus.

style

1. Alternative form of stile (“style”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɨ.lɛ/

style

1. plural of styl
2. accusative plural of styl
3. vocative plural of styl

Borrowed from English style.

• IPA^(key): /is.ˈtaj.li/, /ˈstaj.li/, /iʃ.ˈtaj.li/

style (invariable, comparable)

1. (Brazil, slang) stylish

   Com este calçado você fica style!

   With this shoe you become stylish!