Meaning

1 senses

  1. In a particular style or fashion.

More definitions
  • with ice cream on top or on the side

Examples

8 sentences

  1. My favorite dessert is cheesecake a la mode.

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  2. I'm in a different mode now.

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  3. Cars are a popular mode of transportation for many people around the world.

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  4. He always prefers his pie served a la mode.

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  5. Offering a dark mode is necessary for interface accessibility.

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Translations

1 languages

Origin

Unadapted borrowing from French à la mode (“in fashion”). The US sense was coined by polyg

Unadapted borrowing from French à la mode (“in fashion”). The US sense was coined by polyglot restaurant owner John Gieriet in Minnesota in the 1800s though later attributed to Berry Hall and Charles Watson Townsend.

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See also

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