- style
- [[t]sta͟ɪl[/t]]
♦♦styles, styling, styled1) N-COUNT: with supp, also in adj N The style of something is the general way in which it is done or presented, which often shows the attitudes of the people involved.
Our children's different needs and learning styles created many problems...
Belmont Park is a broad sweeping track which will suit the European style of running...
Sam celebrated in fine style.
2) N-UNCOUNT: oft in N If people or places have style, they are smart and elegant.Bournemouth, you have to admit, has style...
Both love doing things in style...
She had not lost her grace and style.
3) N-VAR The style of a product is its design.His 50 years of experience have given him strong convictions about style...
Several styles of hat were available.
4) N-COUNT: usu with supp In the arts, a particular style is characteristic of a particular period or group of people....six scenes in the style of a classical Greek tragedy.
...a mixture of musical styles.
...the revival of the gothic style.
5) VERB: usu passive If something such as a piece of clothing, a vehicle, or someone's hair is styled in a particular way, it is designed or shaped in that way.[be V-ed] His thick blond hair had just been styled before his trip.
[V-ed] ...classically styled clothes.
6) → See also , self-styled, styling7) PHRASE: v-link PHR If you say that something is not someone 's style, you mean that it is not the way in which they usually do things, or it is different from the sort of thing they usually like.Mr Blair was not off guard. That is not his style...
To be honest, the house is not quite our style.
English dictionary. 2008.
