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vogue

/vəʊɡ//vəʊɡ/

vogue noun: the prevailing fashion or style.

Noun

vogue (countable and uncountable, plural vogues)

  1. The prevailing fashion or style.
    • Miniskirts were the vogue in the '60s.
  2. Popularity or a current craze.
    • Hula hoops are no longer in vogue.
    • The rotation of nine years with two fallowings, which was formerly so much in vogue, is now seldom or never to be met with; it was, however, productive of very fine crops of corn on tenacious soils which require a great deal of tillage.1860, Albrecht Daniel Thaer, The Principles of Practical Agriculture
  3. A highly stylized modern dance that evolved out of the Harlem ballroom scene in the 1960s.
  4. (Polari) A cigarette.
    • Will you take a varder at the cartz on the feely-omi in the naf strides: the one with the bona blue ogles polarying the omi-palone with a vogue on and a cod sheitel.1997, James Gardiner, Who's a Pretty Boy Then?, page 137

Verb

vogue (third-person singular simple present vogues, present participle voguing, simple past and past participle vogued)

  1. (intransitive) To dance in the vogue dance style.
    • Tonight’s sumptuous two-hour gig butts up hard against the curfew. Minutes often go by during which Murphy dispenses entirely with the business of singing pop songs. She’ll vogue, or reanimate some acid house moves, letting the beat take over.2021 September 25, Kitty Empire, “Róisín Murphy review – a triumphant dancefloor workout”, in The Guardian
    • “Come on, this is boring!” “Okay... little man, bring your best.” (crowd cheering, clamoring) “Okay, looks like the little guy's voguing now. Whoa!”2022 July 26, William Meny & Paul Simms, “The Night Market” (19:50 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 4, episode 4, spoken by Ringmaster (Nick Corirossi)
  2. (Polari) To light a cigarette for (someone).
    • Vogue me up.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Vogue

Vogue

  1. A fashion and lifestyle magazine.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Vogue

Vogue

  1. A hamlet in St Day parish, east of Redruth, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW7242).

vogue meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

vogue in Tamil

நடப்பிலுள்ள, நடப்பில் உள்ள நடைமுறை வழக்கு, நடைமுறை வழக்கு

vogue in Urdu

مقبولیت, وضع

vogue in Bengali

the prevailing fashion or style
রেওয়াজ reōẇaj

vogue in Malayalam

vogue
പഴക്കം paḻakkaṁ
More languagesFewer languages
vogue in Kannada
ಇವತ್ತಿನ ಮಾಟ, ಉಡುಗೆಯ ಮಾಟ, ಮಂದಿ ಮೆಚ್ಚುವ ಮಾಟ, ಜನಪ್ರಿಯತೆಯ
vogue in Punjabi
ਆਦਤ ādat

Examples of vogue in a sentence

  • In the early 19th century high-tailed horses were in vogue.
  • A Hapan gemwright whose intricately fitted gems enjoyed a brief but influential vogue a few centuries back.
  • Until some meaning tongue discandy and dissolve, its new vogue hidden face down beneath the bed.

All 31 example sentences with vogue

Forms of vogue

Noun
pluralvogues
Verb
third-person singular presentvogues
present participlevoguing
past participlevogued
pastvogued

Plural of vogue: vogues

Origin of vogue

First attested in 1565. Borrowed from Middle French vogue (“wave, course of success”), from Old French vogue, from voguer (“to row, sway, set sail”), from Old Saxon wogōn (“to sway, rock”), var. of wagōn (“to float, fluctuate”), from Proto-Germanic *wagōną (“to sway, fluctuate”) and Proto-Germanic *wēgaz (“water in motion”), from Proto-Germanic *weganą (“to move, carry, weigh”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to move, go, transport”) (compare way). Akin to Old Saxon wegan (“to move”), Old High German wegan (“to move”), Old English wegan (“to move, carry, weigh”), Old Norse vaga (“to sway, fluctuate”), Old English wagian (“to sway, totter”), German Woge (“wave”), Swedish våg (“wave”). More at wag. The dance derives its name from Vogue magazine.

Trade name, from vogue (“style, fashion”).

From Cornish Fog, blowing house or smelting furnace.

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Questions about vogue

What does vogue mean?
Vogue means the prevailing fashion or style.
What is vogue in Tamil?
Vogue in Tamil is நடப்பிலுள்ள, நடப்பில் உள்ள நடைமுறை வழக்கு, நடைமுறை வழக்கு. See Vogue meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is vogue?
Vogue can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce vogue?
Vogue is pronounced /vəʊɡ/.
What is the plural of vogue?
The plural of vogue is vogues.

Words near vogue in the dictionary

  1. Vogt
  2. Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease
  3. Vogtian
  4. Vogtland
  5. Vogtlandkreis
  6. vogue
  7. vogue word
  8. vogue words
  9. vogued
  10. vogueing
  11. vogueish

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: vogue (page history and authors); Vogue (page history and authors); vogue (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vogue (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); പഴക്കം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); vogue (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਆਦਤ (Punjabi) (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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