style
how something is done or how it happens
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,708 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 10,608 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.005% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- how something is done or how it happens also: manner, mode, way, fashion her dignified mannerhis rapid manner of talking
- 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 also: expressive style all the reporters were expected to adopt the style of the newspaper
- a particular kind (as to appearance) this style of shoe is in demand
- the popular taste at a given time also: vogue, trend leather is the latest voguehe followed current trends
- (botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma
- editorial directions to be followed in spelling and punctuation and capitalization and typographical display
style in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Her conversation, I soon found, was couched in the telegraphic style.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles · Agatha Christie · Chapter 1
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An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.
The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 1
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This masterly translation does all that can be done for the Odyssey in the romantic style.
The Odyssey of Homer · 751? BCE-651? BCE Homer · Chapter 1
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Breakfast was now laid in Katty's best style, and with an originality of arrangement that scorned all precedent.
The Station · William Carleton · Chapter 1
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Cold, stiff, aping evidently the English style, he expressed himself in brief sentences, and with a strong foreign accent.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1