A stye is a little bump that appears on your eyelid. It happens when a gland near your eye gets infected and swollen.
I have a stye on my eyelid today.
She felt pain from the small stye.
A stye is a small pen or area where pigs or farm animals live. It is often dirty and used to keep animals safe.
The farmer cleaned the pig stye today.
The pigs sleep in the stye at night.
People sometimes call a very dirty or messy room a stye. It means the place is untidy and not nice to see.
This room is a stye; please clean it.
His house looks like a stye now.
A stye can mean a bad or unpleasant place. People use it to talk about a location that is dirty, uncomfortable, or chaotic.
This office feels like a stye to work in.
That restaurant is a real stye sometimes.
In older or dialect English, stye can mean a small hole or opening. This use is rare today but appears in historical texts.
He looked through the stye to see outside.
The wall had a small stye near the floor.
