stylebook

noun

style·​book ˈstī(-ə)l-ˌbu̇k 

: a book explaining, describing, or illustrating a prevailing, accepted, or authorized style

Examples of stylebook in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The Associated Press, which declined to change its stylebook to acknowledge Trump’s renaming of the Gulf, resulted in the administration barring the outlet from the Oval Office and a back-and-forth court battle over the First Amendment. —Hailey Bullis, The Washington Examiner, 1 May 2025

This second version feels more natural to me, though the New York Times’s stylebook prefers the answer as written. —Sam Corbin, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2025

Though a judge ordered key officials to restore the wire service’s access to certain White House spaces, the Trump administration has found work-arounds to keep the AP iced out in certain places over its refusal to use the term Gulf of America in its popular stylebook. —Ella Lee, The Hill, 18 Apr. 2025

Hathaway seems to have taken a leaf from Hailey Bieber’s cold weather dressing stylebook. —Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 16 Mar. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1708, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for stylebook

• kinderhook
• meadowbrook
• overlook
• overtook
• pocketbook
• storybook
• tillamook
• undertook
• betook
• casebook
• chapbook
• checkbook