STYLE
What does "STYLE" mean?
A distinctive manner of doing, expressing, or presenting something.
Meanings
- A particular way in which something is done, made, or expressed. Her writing style is spare and precise.
- Elegance and sophistication in appearance or behavior. He handled the loss with real style.
- A fashionable mode of dress or design at a given time. Wide lapels are back in style this year.
- The slender stalk of a flower's pistil, connecting the stigma to the ovary. Pollen travels down the style to reach the ovary. technical
- To design, arrange, or name in a particular way. She styled the model's hair for the shoot.
Did you know?
- Style began as a physical object: the Latin 'stilus' was the pointed tool used to scratch words into wax. From 'how you held the pen' came 'your manner of writing', and finally 'your flair in everything'.
Word origin
From Latin 'stylus', a pointed instrument for writing on wax tablets; the meaning shifted from the writing tool to the manner of writing, and then to manner in general.
Remember it
STYLE holds 'sty' + 'le' - but think 'stylus': the pen-point root of how you do things with flair.
A little poem
It is not the coat, the line, the chosen word-
but how, in the wearing, the whole self is heard.
couplet
Wordplay
- The botanist had real style: she pointed to the flower's pistil and called it her best one yet.
What it teaches
Style is not the thing you do but the unmistakable way only you do it.
Quick facts
What does STYLE mean?
A distinctive manner of doing, expressing, or presenting something.
Is STYLE a valid word?
Yes — STYLE is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is STYLE?
STYLE has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does STYLE come from?
From Latin 'stylus', a pointed instrument for writing on wax tablets; the meaning shifted from the writing tool to the manner of writing, and then to manner in general.
What can STYLE teach us?
Style is not the thing you do but the unmistakable way only you do it.
How players do
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