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substyles

substyles is the plural of substyle.

Meaning of substyle

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

Questions about substyles

What is substyles the plural of?
Substyles is the plural of substyle.

Words near substyles in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: substyles (page history and authors); substyle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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