style

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From Old French estile (French: style), from Latin stilus.

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style (plural styles)

  1. A manner of doing things, especially a fashionable one.
  2. (botany) the stalk that connects the stigma(s) to the ovary in a pistil of a flower.
  3. A traditional or legal term preceding a reference to a person who holds a title or post.
  4. A traditional or legal term used to address a person who holds a title or post.
  5. (nonstandard) stylus
  6. (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

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

  1. To create or give a style, fashion or image.
  2. To call or give a name or title.
    • 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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French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin stilus.

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style m (plural styles)

  1. style