style

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
style/stʌɪl/

▶noun

• 1 a manner of doing something.

  ■ a way of painting, writing, etc. characteristic of a particular period, person, etc.

• 2 a distinctive appearance, design, or arrangement.

• 3 elegance and sophistication.

• 4 an official or legal title.

• 5 Botany a narrow, typically elongated extension of the ovary, bearing the stigma.

• 6 Zoology (in an invertebrate) a small, slender pointed appendage; a stylet.

• 7 another term for stylus (in sense 2).

▶verb

• 1 design, make, or arrange in a particular form.

• 2 designate with a particular name, description, or title.

– derivatives
styleless adjective,
stylelessness noun,
styler noun.

– origin ME: from OFr. stile, from L. stilus.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
-style/stʌɪl/

▶suffix (forming adjectives and adverbs) in a manner characteristic of: family-style.