Meaning

4 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The prevailing fashion or style.

    Miniskirts were the vogue in the '60s.

    Mode

    мо́даmóda

  2. (countable, uncountable)Popularity or a current craze.

    Hula hoops are no longer in vogue.

    популя́рностьpopuljárnostʹ

  3. (countable, uncountable)A highly stylized modern dance that evolved out of the Harlem ballroom scene in the 1960s.

  4. (Polari, countable, uncountable)A cigarette.

More definitions
  • the popular taste at a given time
  • a current state of general acceptance and use

Examples

11 sentences
  1. This style is much in vogue.

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  2. Terms like "sexism" are now in vogue.

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  3. His novel had a great vogue for a long time.

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  4. It's kind of in vogue, but the price is too much!

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  5. The French style of dress is in vogue now.

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
the prevailing fashion or style:
popularity or a current craze:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
the prevailing fashion or style:

Origin

First attested in 1565. Borrowed from Middle French vogue (“wave, course of success”), fro

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).

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Forms

plural: vogues
Singularvogue
Pluralvogues

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

7 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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