What does "vogue" mean?
The prevailing fashion or style.
Vogue
/vəʊɡ/ name, noun, verb
name, noun, verb ·Moderate ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: The prevailing fashion or style.
- Grammar: vogue is listed as name, noun, verb.
- Nearest alternatives: style, trend, a la mode, acceptance.
- Useful contrasts: fall out of fashion, obscurity, outdatedness.
- Usage evidence: Terms like "sexism" are now in vogue.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The prevailing fashion or style. countable, uncountable
"Miniskirts were the vogue in the '60s."
- 2 the popular taste at a given time wordnet
- 3 Popularity or a current craze. countable, uncountable
"Hula hoops are no longer in vogue."
- 4 a current state of general acceptance and use wordnet
- 5 A highly stylized modern dance that evolved out of the Harlem ballroom scene in the 1960s. countable, uncountable
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- 6 A cigarette. Polari, countable, uncountable
"Will you take a varder at the cartz on the feely-omi in the naf strides: the one with the bona blue ogles polarying the omi-palone with a vogue on and a cod sheitel."
Verb
- 1 To dance in the vogue dance style. intransitive
"Tonight’s sumptuous two-hour gig butts up hard against the curfew. Minutes often go by during which Murphy dispenses entirely with the business of singing pop songs. She’ll vogue, or reanimate some acid house moves, letting the beat take over."
- 2 To light a cigarette for (someone). Polari
"Vogue me up."
Proper Noun
- 1 A fashion and lifestyle magazine.
- 2 A hamlet in St Day parish, east of Redruth, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW7242).
Synonyms
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Example
"Terms like "sexism" are now in vogue."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "vogue"?
Common synonyms include: style, trend, a la mode, acceptance, acceptance, acclaim.
How do you use "vogue" in a sentence?
Terms like "sexism" are now in vogue.
How do you pronounce "vogue"?
Pronounced /vəʊɡ/.
Etymology
Etymology 1
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). Akin to Old Saxon wegan (“to move”), Old High German wegan (“to move”), Old English wegan (“to move, carry, weigh”), Old Norse vaga (“to sway, fluctuate”), Old English wagian (“to sway, totter”), German Woge (“wave”), Swedish våg (“wave”). More at wag. The dance derives its name from Vogue magazine.
Etymology 2
Trade name, from vogue (“style, fashion”).
Etymology 3
From Cornish Fog, blowing house or smelting furnace.