fashion
a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.
conventional usage in dress, manners, etc., especially of polite society, or conformity to it: the dictates of fashion; to be out of fashion.
manner; way; mode: in a warlike fashion.
the make or form of anything: He liked the fashion of the simple, sturdy furniture.
a kind; sort: All fashions of people make up the world.
Obsolete. workmanship.
Obsolete. act or process of making.
to give a particular shape or form to; make: The cavemen fashioned tools from stones.
to accommodate; adjust; adapt: doctrines fashioned to the varying hour.
Shipbuilding. to bend (a plate) without preheating.
Obsolete. to contrive; manage.
Idioms about fashion
after / in a fashion, in some manner or other or to some extent; in a makeshift, unskillful, or unsatisfactory way: He's an artist after a fashion.
Origin of fashion
1synonym study For fashion
Other words for fashion
Other words from fashion
- fash·ion·less, adjective
- an·ti·fash·ion, noun, adjective
- mis·fash·ion, noun
- mis·fash·ioned, adjective
- pre·fash·ion, verb (used with object), noun
- pre·fash·ioned, adjective
- re·fash·ion, verb (used with object)
- trans·fash·ion, noun
- un·fash·ioned, adjective
- well-fashioned, adjective
Words Nearby fashion
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How to use fashion in a sentence
The Heat and Celtics kept the overtime trend alive, with Miami winning Game 1 in dramatic fashion.
Bam Adebayo Is Making Plays, Denver Is Making Us Look Bad, And The Lakers May Need To Make Some Adjustments | Chris Herring (chris.herring@fivethirtyeight.com) | September 17, 2020 | FiveThirtyEightThat indicates even Facebook understands it can’t remove these groups in a timely fashion.
The multi motivated platform will focus on fashion, music, art and more, as well as provide emerging designers the opportunity to grow and explore with innovators and highly acclaimed brands.
Kerby Jean-Raymond Launch ‘Your Friends In New York’ | Nandi Howard | September 11, 2020 | Essence.comWith Clemens giving the brand a foundation of accessibility and anti-exclusivity, he is showing the fashion industry that you’re able to have a superpopular product and make it affordable.
As carpooling fell out of fashion, driving alone became the norm.
Her name was Courtney, and she was a fashion editor for magazines like Photoplay, Screenland, Silver Screen.
The Story Behind Lee Marvin’s Liberty Valance Smile | Robert Ward | January 3, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTGood for her—but what a shameful indictment of Planet fashion.
One Vogue Cover Doesn’t Solve Fashion’s Big Race Problem | Danielle Belton | January 2, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTBoth high fashion and the fast, commercial fashion of Target are supposed to be about aspiration.
One Vogue Cover Doesn’t Solve Fashion’s Big Race Problem | Danielle Belton | January 2, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTWhen ‘Downton Abbey’ returns Sunday night, its fashion fans are in for a familiar treat.
The fashion industry could never, would never, state its exclusion of black models overtly.
One Vogue Cover Doesn’t Solve Fashion’s Big Race Problem | Danielle Belton | January 2, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTIt was a decayed house of superb proportions, but of a fashion long passed away.
Checkmate | Joseph Sheridan Le FanuTruth is a torch, but one of enormous size; so that we slink past it in rather a blinking fashion for fear it should burn us.
Pearls of Thought | Maturin M. BallouAt last there appeared some probability of their accomplishing this, after a most curious and truly Mexican fashion.
In most club card-rooms smoking is not permitted, but at the Pandemonium it is the fashion to smoke everywhere.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3) | Charles James WillsIn his childlike, impulsive fashion he had not thought of the future when he adopted Jean.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol | William J. Locke
British Dictionary definitions for fashion
/ (ˈfæʃən) /
style in clothes, cosmetics, behaviour, etc, esp the latest or most admired style
(as modifier): a fashion magazine
(modifier) (esp of accessories) designed to be in the current fashion, but not necessarily to last
manner of performance; mode; way: in a striking fashion
(in combination): crab-fashion
a way of life that revolves around the activities, dress, interests, etc, that are most fashionable
shape, appearance, or form
sort; kind; type
after a fashion or in a fashion
in some manner, but not very well: I mended it, after a fashion
of a low order; of a sort: he is a poet, after a fashion
after the fashion of like; similar to
of fashion of high social standing
to give a particular form to
to make suitable or fitting
obsolete to contrive; manage
Origin of fashion
1Derived forms of fashion
- fashioner, noun
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with fashion
see after a fashion; in fashion.
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