VOGUE
What does "VOGUE" mean?
The prevailing fashion or popularity of something at a given time.
Meanings
- Popular acceptance or current fashion. Wide lapels are back in vogue this season.
- A dance style of stylized, angular poses, born in Harlem ballroom culture. She learned to vogue at the underground balls. informal
- To dance in the vogue style, striking sharp model-like poses. The crowd cheered as he vogued across the floor. informal
Did you know?
- 'Vogue' first meant the course of a rowed boat: French 'voguer' was 'to row', and fashion borrowed the image of a thing 'being carried along' by the current of popularity.
Word origin
From French 'vogue' (fashion, success), originally 'a rowing, course', from 'voguer' (to row, sail), from Italian 'vogare'; the sense shifted from 'being carried along' to 'what is carried along by popularity'.
Remember it
VOGUE rhymes with 'rogue' but means the opposite - a rogue defies fashion, a vogue defines it.
A little poem
What's in vogue is borrowed from the tide;
the wave that lifts you is the one you ride.
couplet
Wordplay
- Fashion told me wide trousers were back in vogue, so I rowed with it - turns out the word always meant going with the current.
What it teaches
What's in vogue is a current, not a compass; ride it knowingly or be carried off by it.
Quick facts
What does VOGUE mean?
The prevailing fashion or popularity of something at a given time.
Is VOGUE a valid word?
Yes — VOGUE is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is VOGUE?
VOGUE has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does VOGUE come from?
From French 'vogue' (fashion, success), originally 'a rowing, course', from 'voguer' (to row, sail), from Italian 'vogare'; the sense shifted from 'being carried along' to 'what is carried along by popularity'.
What can VOGUE teach us?
What's in vogue is a current, not a compass; ride it knowingly or be carried off by it.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.