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
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How to use fashion in a sentence
A horde of B-list celebs are now reportedly being paid by various brands to attend the festival wearing their fashions.
Coachella, Oasis For Douchebags and Trust Fund Babies, Should Be Avoided At All Costs | Marlow Stern | April 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe annual Kitty CATure fashion Show, which took place in New York this weekend, featured fashions for dogs and cats of all sizes.
Kitty CATure Fashion Show, An Amazing Dog and Cat Fashion Show, Happened In New York This Weekend | Lori-Lee Emshey | September 30, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTOr at least one that features pop tunes, risqué fashions, and lip gloss?
Fall-Winter TV Preview: Snap Judgments of 2013–14’s New Shows | Jace Lacob, Kevin Fallon | July 16, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTHe pastiches and parodies the society columns, which applaud new fashions that reflect wartime austerity.
In the story, my new friends and I talked about the hottest fashions of the day.
Living On—And Leaving—America’s Biggest Commune | Rena Mundo Croshere | November 23, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
In those days fashions and manners differed greatly from those of to-day.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph TatlowWhat a multitude of strange faces, and still stranger fashions, they would bring again to light!
The World Before Them | Susanna MoodieIn Parliament, where of course the old costly fashions have long been out of vogue, the change is equally noticeable.
I do not want you to be too ambitious or too wise for the good old fashions of wife and mother!
Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline | Jennie M. DrinkwaterThe moment a girl marries in New England she is apt to become a drudge, or a lay figure on which to exhibit the latest fashions.
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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