substyle

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noun

A secondary or subsidiary style.

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Meanings

nounsubstyle (plural substyles)

plural substyles · alternative substile

  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

Origin

From sub- + style.

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APA

substyle. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/substyle

MLA

“substyle.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/substyle. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “substyle,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/substyle.

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