style
n. C / Un. the particular way that someone does something, or the way something looks. It often refers to things like clothes, writing, or art that show a person's taste.
n. a distinctive manner of expression, design, or performance. Often used to categorise aesthetic choices in art, literature, or fashion.
I really like the style of your new jacket.
The architect chose a modern style for the new library to match the surrounding glass buildings.
While the author's early works followed a traditional narrative style, her later novels experimented with a stream-of-consciousness technique that challenged contemporary readers.
The noun is derived from Middle English stile, stel, stele, stiel, stiele, stil, still, stille, styele, style, styill, styll, styyl (“writing tool, stylus; piece of written work; characteristic mode of expression, particularly one regarded as high quality; demeanour, manner, way of life; person's designation or title; stem of a plant; period of time”) (compare semantic development to по́черк (póčerk, “handwriting, style”)), from Old French style, estile, stil, stile (modern French style), or from Medieval Latin stylus, both from Latin stilus (“pointed instrument, pale, spike, stake; writing tool, stylus; act of setting down in writing, composition; characteristic mode of expression, style; stem of a plant”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to be sharp; to pierce, prick, puncture, stab; to goad”). Doublet of stylus. The English word is cognate with Catalan estil (“engraving tool, stylus; gnomon; manner of doing something, style; fashionable skill, grace”), German Stiel (“handle; stalk”), Italian stilo (“needle, stylus; fountain pen; beam; gnomon; part of pistil, style”), Occitan estil, Portuguese estilo (“writing tool, stylus; manner of doing something, style”), Spanish estilo (“writing tool, stylus; manner of doing something, style; fashionable skill, grace; part of pistil, style”). The verb is derived from the noun.
Uncountable when referring to the general quality of being fashionable or elegant; countable when referring to a specific category or type.