fashion

[ fash-uhn ]
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noun
  1. a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.

  2. conventional usage in dress, manners, etc., especially of polite society, or conformity to it: the dictates of fashion; to be out of fashion.

  1. manner; way; mode: in a warlike fashion.

  2. the make or form of anything: He liked the fashion of the simple, sturdy furniture.

  3. a kind; sort: All fashions of people make up the world.

  4. Obsolete. workmanship.

  5. Obsolete. act or process of making.

verb (used with object)
  1. to give a particular shape or form to; make: The cavemen fashioned tools from stones.

  2. to accommodate; adjust; adapt: doctrines fashioned to the varying hour.

  1. Shipbuilding. to bend (a plate) without preheating.

  2. Obsolete. to contrive; manage.

Idioms about fashion

  1. 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

1
First recorded in 1300–1350; Middle English facioun, fasoun “shape, manner,” from Anglo-French faço(u)n, façun, Old French faceon, from Latin factiōn- (stem of factiō ) “a making, company, party.” See faction1

synonym study For fashion

1. Fashion, style, vogue imply popularity or widespread acceptance of manners, customs, dress, etc. Fashion is that which characterizes or distinguishes the habits, manners, dress, etc., of a period or group: the fashions of the 18th century. Style is sometimes the equivalent of fashion, but also denotes conformance to a prevalent standard: to be in style; a chair in the Queen Anne style. Vogue suggests the temporary popularity of certain fashions: this year's vogue in popular music.

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

British Dictionary definitions for fashion

fashion

/ (ˈfæʃən) /


noun
    • style in clothes, cosmetics, behaviour, etc, esp the latest or most admired style

    • (as modifier): a fashion magazine

  1. (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

  1. a way of life that revolves around the activities, dress, interests, etc, that are most fashionable

  2. shape, appearance, or form

  3. sort; kind; type

  4. 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

  5. after the fashion of like; similar to

  6. of fashion of high social standing

verb(tr)
  1. to give a particular form to

  2. to make suitable or fitting

  1. obsolete to contrive; manage

Origin of fashion

1
C13 facioun form, manner, from Old French faceon, from Latin factiō a making, from facere to make

Derived forms of fashion

  • fashioner, noun

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Other Idioms and Phrases with fashion

fashion

see after a fashion; in fashion.

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