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substyle

substyle noun: a secondary or subsidiary style.

Noun

substyle (plural substyles)

  1. A secondary or subsidiary style.
    • In this way, breakdancing, hardbeat, acidhouse, acidbeat, hip-hop, punk, rockabilly and streetmusic make up a plurality of substyles launched by the record companies which take over the national markets, […]1997, Alison J. Ewbank, Fouli T. Papageorgiou, Whose Master's Voice?: The Development of Popular Music in Thirteen Cultures
  2. A right line on which the style, or gnomon, of a sundial is erected, being the common section of the face of the dial and a plane perpendicular to it passing through the style.
    • which is the distance of the Substyle from the Perpendicular[…]1699, Joseph Moxon, A Tutor to Astronomy and Geography […] , page 168

Forms of substyle

pluralsubstyles
alternative formsubstile

Origin of substyle

From sub- + style.

Words formed from substyle

Questions about substyle

What does substyle mean?
Substyle means a secondary or subsidiary style.
What part of speech is substyle?
Substyle is a noun.
What is the plural of substyle?
The plural of substyle is substyles.

Words near substyle in the dictionary

  1. substub
  2. substubs
  3. substudies
  4. substudy
  5. substylar
  6. substyle
  7. substyles
  8. subsubchapter
  9. subsubchapters
  10. subsubdomain
  11. subsubdomains

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