vogue
The prevailing fashion or styleThe prevailing fashion or style.
» This style is much in vogue.
Meaning
4 senses(countable, uncountable)The prevailing fashion or style.
Miniskirts were the vogue in the '60s.
Mode
мо́даmóda
(countable, uncountable)Popularity or a current craze.
Hula hoops are no longer in vogue.
популя́рностьpopuljárnostʹ
(countable, uncountable)A highly stylized modern dance that evolved out of the Harlem ballroom scene in the 1960s.
(Polari, countable, uncountable)A cigarette.
- the popular taste at a given time
- a current state of general acceptance and use
Examples
11 sentencesThis style is much in vogue.
Terms like "sexism" are now in vogue.
His novel had a great vogue for a long time.
It's kind of in vogue, but the price is too much!
The French style of dress is in vogue now.
Translations
6 languagesBy meaning 2
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Origin
First attested in 1565. Borrowed from Middle French vogue (“wave, course of success”), froFirst 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).
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Forms
plural: voguesSynonyms
2 synonymsWord family
7 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable