high style
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6.3
- noun
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- The fashion show featured designs that exemplified high style and sophistication.
- high style furniture
- high style look
Examples
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Disney and Marvel Studios' The Avengers, opening May 4, kicked off the season in high style, smashing records and finishing Labor Day weekend with a worldwide gross of $1.5 billion, including a domestic haul north of $620 million.
Blog text (25) -
You can still write in high style.
Academic text (2007) -
We're riding in high style now!
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It was high style then.
Fiction book (1993) -
You have won a high-style two-room apartment in Acapulco!
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Brenda55: Yuppers, that was high style then, for sure. I tried it; didn't work, lol.
Blog text (27) -
She sat on the proverbial gold mine, enough to keep the kids in high style, maybe enough to break the grind of hunting money and food, for a while at least.
Fiction book (2001) -
She decorated her home with high style, choosing elegant furniture and artwork.
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His outfit was the epitome of high style, combining luxury with modern trends.
Synonyms
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3.4
A distinctive way people dress or behave that shows taste
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4.8
A polite, stylish way of acting or dressing
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5.3
A style or idea that is fashionable now
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4.1
Expensive, trend-setting clothing and accessories made by top designers
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8.8
Clothes that are very expensive and made to fit one person by top fashion designers
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4.1
A quality of being elegant, stylish, and showing good taste
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3.5
A smooth, shiny, stylish appearance for hair or clothes
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3.6
A quality of being fashionable and attractive
A neat, smooth appearance that seems expensive
A quality of being in style and following the latest fashions
A way of wearing clothes that is formal and stylish for special occasions
Antonyms
How Stylish
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'high' (superior) modifies 'style' (fashion/aesthetic), so a learner who knows both words can infer it refers to sophisticated, top-quality fashion or design. This adjective+noun degree pattern is common in English and other languages, making the expression readily understandable to a B1 learner.
Etymology
High style comes from the simple image of high meaning the top class and style meaning the way someone dresses, like the elegant clothes you see at fancy parties. So, high style means 'new and popular' fashion and a very smart look.