IN STYLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does in style mean? 

• IN STYLE (adjective)
  The adjective IN STYLE has 1 sense:

1. in the current fashion or style

  Familiarity information: IN STYLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IN STYLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In the current fashion or style

Synonyms:

a la mode; in style; in vogue; latest; modish

Similar:

fashionable; stylish (being or in accordance with current social fashions)

 Context examples 

The next day was fine, and Meg departed in style for a fortnight of novelty and pleasure.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

They were doing the thing in style, with fourteen dogs.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking; Lady Dalrymple had taken a house, for three months, in Laura Place, and would be living in style.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Her insipidity was invariable, for even her spirits were always the same; and though she did not oppose the parties arranged by her husband, provided every thing were conducted in style and her two eldest children attended her, she never appeared to receive more enjoyment from them than she might have experienced in sitting at home;—and so little did her presence add to the pleasure of the others, by any share in their conversation, that they were sometimes only reminded of her being amongst them by her solicitude about her troublesome boys.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

What I was after wantin' was all the goold, the whole eight thousan'. Thin I cud go back in style. What ud be aisier, thinks I to myself, than to kill all iv yez, report it at Skaguay for an Indian-killin', an' thin pull out for Ireland?

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

She'd be so nice if she was only got up in style.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Aunt March likes to have us pay her the compliment of coming in style, and making a formal call.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Now do let me please myself by dressing you up in style.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)