VOGUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vogue mean? 

• VOGUE (noun)
  The noun VOGUE has 2 senses:

1. the popular taste at a given time

2. a current state of general acceptance and use

  Familiarity information: VOGUE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VOGUE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The popular taste at a given time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

style; trend; vogue

Context example:

the 1920s had a style of their own

Hypernyms ("vogue" is a kind of...):

appreciation; discernment; perceptiveness; taste (delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vogue"):

New Look (a style of women's clothing created by Christian Dior in 1947; involved a tight bodice and narrow waist and a flowing pleated skirt)

fashion (the latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior)

bandwagon (a popular trend that attracts growing support)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A current state of general acceptance and use

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("vogue" is a kind of...):

acceptance (the state of being acceptable and accepted)

 Context examples 

Certainly, sir; and it has the advantage also of being in vogue amongst the less polished societies of the world.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

At the age of twenty-one he wrote a treatise upon the Binomial Theorem, which has had a European vogue.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He turned to the huge bundle of clippings which had come in from his press bureau, and read about himself and his vogue, which had become a furore.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The duello with its stately etiquette had not yet come into vogue, but rough and sudden encounters were as common as they must ever be when hot-headed youth goes abroad with a weapon strapped to its waist.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And it is highly probable, that such travellers, who shall hereafter visit the countries described in this work of mine, may, by detecting my errors (if there be any), and adding many new discoveries of their own, justle me out of vogue, and stand in my place, making the world forget that ever I was an author.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Tom Owen and his singular assistant, Fogo, who combined the functions of prize-fighter and of poet, though, fortunately for himself, he could use his fists better than his pen, soon had the ring arranged according to the rules then in vogue.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Seen now, in broad daylight, she looked tall, fair, and shapely; brown eyes with a benignant light in their irids, and a fine pencilling of long lashes round, relieved the whiteness of her large front; on each of her temples her hair, of a very dark brown, was clustered in round curls, according to the fashion of those times, when neither smooth bands nor long ringlets were in vogue; her dress, also in the mode of the day, was of purple cloth, relieved by a sort of Spanish trimming of black velvet; a gold watch (watches were not so common then as now) shone at her girdle.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He said, that new systems of nature were but new fashions, which would vary in every age; and even those, who pretend to demonstrate them from mathematical principles, would flourish but a short period of time, and be out of vogue when that was determined.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)