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style | acropolitan |

As a noun style

is a manner of doing or presenting things, especially a fashionable one.

As a verb style

is to create or give a style, fashion or image.

As an adjective Acropolitan is

of, pertaining to, or in the style of the Athenian Acropolis; compare {{term|acropolitan|lang=en}}.

style

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A manner of doing or presenting things, especially a fashionable one.
  • * Chesterfield
    • Style is the dress of thoughts.
  • * C. Middleton
    • the usual style of dedications
  • * I. Disraeli
    • It is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work.
  • * Sir J. Reynolds
    • The ornamental style also possesses its own peculiar merit.
  • flair; grace; fashionable skill
    • As a dancer, he has a lot of style .
  • (botany) The stalk that connects the stigma(s) to the ovary in a pistil of a flower.
  • A traditional or legal term preceding a reference to a person who holds a title or post.
  • A traditional or legal term used to address a person who holds a title or post.
    • the style of Majesty
  • * Burke
    • one style to a gracious benefactor, another to a proud, insulting foe
  • (nonstandard) A stylus.
  • (obsolete) A pen; an author's pen.
    • (Dryden)
  • A sharp-pointed tool used in engraving; a graver.
  • A kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument.
  • A long, slender, bristle-like process.
    • the anal styles of insects
  • The pin, or gnomon, of a sundial, the shadow of which indicates the hour.
  • (computing) A visual or other modification to text or other elements of a document, such as bold or italic.
    • applying styles to text in a wordprocessor
    Cascading Style Sheets

    Derived terms

    * stylish * stylist * hairstyle * style guide * style manual

    See also

    * substance

    Verb

    (styl)
  • To create or give a style, fashion or image.
  • To call or give a name or title.
  • * 1811 , Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility , chapter 10
    • Marianne’s preserver, as Margaret, with more elegance than precision, stiled (SIC) Willoughby, called at the cottage early the next morning to make his personal inquiries.

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    acropolitan

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of, pertaining to, or in the style of the ; compare acropolitan.
  • * 1854 : Robert Stuart, Cyclopedia of Architecture: Historical, Descriptive, Topographical, Decorative, Theoretical and Mechanical , pages 60]{1} and [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=JKkaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA63&dq=Acropolitan&ei=HimiSpu4IovgyQSxo9mLCA#v=onepage&q=%22politan%22&f=false 63–64{2} (A. S. Barnes & Co., 51 John-Street)
    • {1} Who first surrounded the Acropolitan platform with a wall, is unknown, but it is probable that the work of Pelasgi may be traced in part of the boundary wall, from a division of it having received that name by tradition.
    {2} The walls of Tiryns and Mycenæ, are the finest remains of Acropolitan building in Greece, but they are inferior in magnitude to erections, (called Cyclopean), of Norba, in Latium; and several other Pelasgic fortresses of Cora, Signia, and Alatrium, in Italy, (the walls of which resemble those of Tiryns, Argos, and Mycenæ,) whose wonderful ruins exhibit walls of equal strength and solidity with those of Argolis.
  • * 1900 : Cyrenus Osborne Ward, The Ancient Lowly: A History of the Ancient Working People from the Earliest Known Period to the Adoption of Christianity by Constantine , volume 2, page 336 (C. H. Kerr & company co-operative)
    • a ferocious gang of Athenian officers, skyward, headed perhaps, by the triumphant Demosthenes, to the Acropolitan cliff, and to see her palsying form slugged down the abyss. The mangled head and trunk, and limbs, dumb in life’s last quivering gasp are the horrid subject of the epitaph.
  • * 1931': International museums office, ''Proceedings of the Athens committe on the anastylosis of the '''Acropolitan monuments , main title
    • Proceedings of the Athens committe on the anastylosis of the Acropolitan monuments
  • * 2006 : Ethnologia Balkanica , volume 10, page 199 (Prof. M. Drinov Academic Pub. House)
    • The younger and wealthier members of the White Acropolis felt the need for some new Acropolitan associations to be created to deal with explicitly political issues concerning the Acropolis region.