• Finnish: suunnitella, stailata
• Hungarian: stilizál
• Norwegian: stilisere

French

Etymology

From stilus.

Pronunciation

Noun

fr-noun m

1. style

Style may refer to:

• Genre, a loose set of criteria for a category or composition
• Design, the process of creating something
• Format, various terms that refer to the style of different things
• Human physical appearance
• Fashion, a prevailing mode of expression, i.e. clothing
• Typeface, style is one of the three traditional design features along with size and weight: either regular, italic or condensed

Style may also refer to:

• Painting style, in art and painting style can refer either to the aesthetic values followed in choosing what to paint (and how) or to the physical techniques employed
• Style (manner of address), titles or honorifics, including Chinese courtesy names
• Style (botany), a stalk structure in female flower parts. See Gynoecium

Music

• Music genre, music that shares a certain style or "basic musical language"
• Style (Cameo album), released in 1983
• Style (Namie Amuro album), an album by Namie Amuro, released in 2003
• "Style" (2007 song), from the Tamil film Sivaji: The Boss
• Styles P, one third of the group LOX or one fourth of the supergroup, D-Block
• "Style", a song from the movie Robin and the 7 Hoods

Film and television

• Style Network, a Comcast-owned cable and satellite television network
• Style (2006 film), a Telugu film starring Raghavendra Lawerence and Prabhu Deva Sundaram
• Style (2004 film), a Burmese romantic comedy
• Style with Elsa Klensch, a CNN fashion series hosted by Elsa Klensch from 1980 to 2000

Literature and linguistics

• Cascading Style Sheets, in web design
• Style guide in writing
• Stylistics (linguistics), in linguistics, variation in the language use of an individual, such as formal/informal style
• "Style", a pseudonym of author Neil Strauss
• Style, a book by Sir Walter Raleigh
• Style, a 1998 fashion book by Elsa Klensch

Other uses

• "Style", on a sundial, the part of the gnomon that casts a shadow
• Style = Stan + Kyle, a popular slash pairing from the TV cartoon South Park

See also

• Stile, a step used for crossing a fence
• Stylus, a writing instrument

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