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τρόπος — meaning in English

tropos

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English meaning

  • fashion noun Popular styles of clothing and appearance at a given time, or the industry built around them.
  • mode noun A particular way or method of doing something.
  • style noun A distinctive way of writing, speaking, dressing, or doing something.
  • trope noun A recurring device, theme or cliché in storytelling — the plucky orphan, the last-minute dash to the airport.
  • way noun A road, path, or route from one place to another.

Senses

τρόπος is used for these senses in English:

  • fashion (countable) A style or manner in which something is done.
  • mode A particular means of accomplishing something.
  • style A particular manner of creating, doing, or presenting something, especially a work of architecture or art.
  • way A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism.

fashion — full definition

  1. noun Popular styles of clothing and appearance at a given time, or the industry built around them.
  2. noun The way in which something is done; a manner or style.
  3. verb To make or shape something, often skilfully or by hand.

mode — full definition

  1. noun A particular way or method of doing something.
  2. noun (statistics) The value that occurs most often in a set of data.
  3. noun A particular state of mind or way of behaving.
  4. noun (music) One of several traditional scales, such as the major or minor scale.

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