style

Noun

• a slender bristlelike or tubular process
  • a cartilaginous style
    

• a pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving
  • he drew the design on the stencil with a steel stylus
    

• distinctive and stylish elegance
  • he wooed her with the confident dash of a cavalry officer
    

• editorial directions to be followed in spelling and punctuation and capitalization and typographical display

• (botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma

• the popular taste at a given time
  • leather is the latest vogue
    
  • he followed current trends
    
  • the 1920s had a style of their own
    

• a particular kind (as to appearance)
  • this style of shoe is in demand
    

• 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
    

• how something is done or how it happens
  • her dignified manner
    
  • his rapid manner of talking
    
  • their nomadic mode of existence
    
  • in the characteristic New York style
    
  • a lonely way of life
    
  • in an abrasive fashion
    

Verb

• make consistent with certain rules of style
  • style a manuscript
    

• make consistent with a certain fashion or style
  • Style my hair
    
  • style the dress
    

• designate by an identifying term
  • They styled their nation `The Confederate States'
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  stylus , dash , elan , flair , panache , vogue , trend , expressive style , manner , mode , way , fashion , title