to style
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5.9
- verb
- /staɪl/
- Formal
- He styles himself as anti-fascist, but his own history has a different story to tell.
- self-styled
- self-styled progressives
- self-styled groups
Examples
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I can attest to this since I have a certificate informing all and sundry that I may style myself Lord Garrett Ryan.
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Back in the Bactrian capital, Demetrius, the Second was deposed by an official known as Eukratides, who styled himself as the new Bactrian king.
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But the man you followed here is not a prince, whatever he chose to style himself.
Fiction book (1992) -
His Trading Post, as he chose to style it, became the largest building north of San Francisco.
Fiction book (1994) -
A slice of the right, together with most of the left, has styled itself a proponent of equal opportunity.
Academic text (2006) -
For today's new-styled academic, scholarship serves as a substitute for radical political action.
Academic text (1990) -
"The operator styles himself 'Kanier Kulprit,' of the Phlash Phoneline Phantoms, sir."
Fiction book (1999) -
He styled himself as a creative leader in the marketing department.
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The author decided to style her novel with a traditional narrative structure.
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After the rebranding, the company styled its image to appeal to a younger audience.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To give a name to someone or something and sometimes to say they are a certain kind
∞
1.0
To give a word people use to identify someone or something
201
2.2
To describe someone with a single word or short term
164
1.3
To give a name to a book, film, or work of art
122
1.5
To give another name for a person or thing
100
4.2
Give a name to a book, film, or painting
93
4.4
To give a name, often an official title, to someone or something
54
3.9
To call something by a particular name
1
7.7
To give a name to a person or thing
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
5
3.7
A file that tells a web page how to look, for example fonts and colors
3
6.3
A type of fashion for clothes or rooms that is very elegant and of the best quality
2
4.9
A way of designing buildings from a certain time or place, for example Gothic
1
5.8
A decorative way of designing rooms and furniture with many small details and rich colors
1
5.3
Art from ancient Greece that uses balance and simple beauty, like statues and temples
- Informal
1
7.3
A pretty, soft look with pastel colors, floral patterns, and playful details
- Specialized
1
6.2
A set of rules for organising how software parts work together, like REST
1
9.4
A 12-month calendar made by Julius Caesar in 46 BC with a leap day every four years
1
7.6
The calendar most countries use today that fixed the Julian calendar's drift
- Specialized
1
8.6
A traditional-looking font like books from long ago with small difference between thick and thin lines
- Formal
1
8.6
A way of writing or speaking that argues strongly and makes people disagree
- Specialized
A simple, elegant style of furniture and paintings from early 1800s Germany and Austria
A style of animation that uses simple shapes, expressive faces, and a playful look
- Literature
A witty, bold way of writing that uses surprising ideas and strong argument
- Slur
A way of dressing with showy clothes and big jewellery often worn by young working-class people
- Slur
A performance style that uses offensive racial stereotypes about Black people
- Archaic
A way of writing that follows strict rules and lacks creative feeling
A style of dress for young girls with small, pretty details like a doll's clothes
- Offensive
A planned killing of someone at close range in a controlled way
- Literature
To give people a lot of information very quickly to overwhelm or confuse them
- Slur
A way of dressing seen as quirky or unfashionable and suggesting someone recently moved from East Asia
- Formal
A system where one person has almost all power and makes decisions alone
- Jargon
A way of dressing with tracksuits and sneakers linked to Eastern European street culture
Thick sideburns that grow down the cheeks and join along the jaw, with no mustache
A type of salmon lightly cured in salt water, usually less salty and sometimes made with sugar
- Specialized
A traditional set of printed letters with small slanted ends and mostly even line thickness
A fixed, simple way of doing creative work that leaves little room for new ideas
A type of English Gothic building style from the 1300s with tall vertical lines, Tudor arches, and fan-shaped ceilings
Surface Forms
Etymology
To style someone with a title comes from the idea of writing a name with a stylus, so to 'style' someone is to give them a formal name or title in writing. That is why people can be styled 'King', 'Father of...', or 'The Magician'.