Style

Style may refer to:

  • Style (fiction), an aspect of literary composition
  • Style (visual arts), in art and painting, either the aesthetic values followed in choosing what to paint (and how) or to the physical techniques employed
  • Architectural style
  • Design, the process of creating something
  • Fashion, a prevailing mode of expression, e.g., clothing
  • Format, various terms that refer to the style of different things
  • Genre, a loose set of criteria for a category or composition
  • Human physical appearance
  • Hairstyle

Style, in specific fields, may also refer to:

  • In typeface, one of the three traditional design features along with size and weight
  • Style (botany), a stalk structure in female flower parts
  • Style (manner of address), titles or honorifics, including Chinese courtesy names

Read more about Style:  Music, Film and Television, Literature, Linguistics, and Rhetoric, Other Uses

Famous quotes containing the word style:

    His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.
    Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    I am so tired of taking to others
    translating my life for the deaf, the blind,
    the “I really want to know what your life is like without giving up any of my privileges
    to live it” white women
    the “I want to live my white life with Third World women’s style and keep my skin
    class privileges” dykes
    Lorraine Bethel, African American lesbian feminist poet. “What Chou Mean We, White Girl?” Lines 49-54 (1979)

    Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.
    Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)