- The way in which something is said, done, expressed, or performed: a style of speech and writing.
- The combination of distinctive features of literary or artistic expression, execution, or performance characterizing a particular person, group, school, or era.
- Sort; type: a style of furniture.
- A quality of imagination and individuality expressed in one's actions and tastes: does things with style.
- A comfortable and elegant mode of existence: living in style.
- A mode of living: the style of the very rich.
- The fashion of the moment, especially of dress; vogue.
- A particular fashion: the style of the 1920s. See synonyms at fashion.
- A customary manner of presenting printed material, including usage, punctuation, spelling, typography, and arrangement.
- A form of address; a title.
- An implement used for etching or engraving.
- A slender pointed writing instrument used by the ancients on wax tablets.
- The needle of a phonograph.
- The gnomon of a sundial.
- Botany. The usually slender part of a pistil, situated between the ovary and the stigma.
- Zoology. A slender, tubular, or bristlelike process: a cartilaginous style.
- Medicine. A surgical probing instrument; a stylet.
- Obsolete. A pen.
- To call or name; designate: George VI styled his brother Duke of Windsor.
- To make consistent with rules of style: style a manuscript.
- To give style to: style hair.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin stylus, stilus, spike, pointed instrument used for writing, style. See stylus.]
styler styl'er n.styling styl'ing n.








