Vogue
[vəʊg] or [voɡ]
Definition
(noun.) the popular taste at a given time; 'leather is the latest vogue'; 'he followed current trends'; 'the 1920s had a style of their own'.
(noun.) a current state of general acceptance and use.
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Definition
(n.) The way or fashion of people at any particular time; temporary mode, custom, or practice; popular reception for the time; -- used now generally in the phrase in vogue.
(n.) Influence; power; sway.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Fashion, mode, way, usage, custom, practice, repute, popularity, favor.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Way, custom, fashion, repute, use, usage, practice
ANT:Desuetude, disuse, disesteem, unfashionableness, disrepute, abolition
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Definition
n. mode or fashion at any particular time: practice: popular reception.
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Examples
- These works had a great vogue in France and Europe. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They have a vogue for a time, and then sink into oblivion. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Certainly, sir; and it has the advantage also of being in vogue amongst the less polished societies of the world. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Yet the very vogue of the electric arc light made harder the arrival of the incandescent. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Such pictures were quickly made, and were much in vogue forty years ago, but are now obsolete. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Allow me to tell you that by-and-by this style of workmanship will be the only one in vogue--half-a-crown, you said? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The time when the more complicated fireworks, which we owe both to Europe and the Orient, came into vogue in this country, no one perhaps could now definitely tell. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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