What does "fashion" mean?
A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.
Fashion
/ˈfæʃən/ noun, verb
noun, verb ·Very common ·Middle school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.
- Grammar: fashion is listed as noun, verb.
- Nearest alternatives: manner, mode, style, way.
- Useful contrasts: chaos, destroy, dishevel.
- Usage evidence: You may think those shoes are in fashion, but they aren't.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons. countable
"The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years."
- 2 characteristic or habitual practice wordnet
- 3 Popular trends, especially in clothing; the industry that designs clothing and sometimes other related items. uncountable
"Check out the latest in fashion."
- 4 consumer goods (especially clothing) in the current mode wordnet
- 5 A style or manner in which something is done. countable
"the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc."
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- 6 how something is done or how it happens wordnet
- 7 The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; workmanship; execution. countable, uncountable
"I do not like the fashion of your garments."
- 8 the latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior wordnet
- 9 Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding. countable, dated, uncountable
"men of fashion"
Verb
- 1 To make, build or construct, especially in a crude or improvised way.
"1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IX I have three gourds which I fill with water and take back to my cave against the long nights. I have fashioned a spear and a bow and arrow, that I may conserve my ammunition, which is running low."
- 2 make out of components (often in an improvising manner) wordnet
- 3 To make in a standard manner; to work. dated
"Fashioned plate sells for more than its weight."
- 4 To fit, adapt, or accommodate to. dated
"Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people."
- 5 To forge or counterfeit. obsolete
"Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit; All with me's meet that I can fashion feet."
Example
"You may think those shoes are in fashion, but they aren't."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "fashion"?
Common synonyms include: manner, mode, style, way, adapt, aesthetic form.
How do you use "fashion" in a sentence?
You may think those shoes are in fashion, but they aren't.
How do you pronounce "fashion"?
Pronounced /ˈfæʃən/.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English facioun, from Anglo-Norman fechoun (compare Jersey Norman faichon), variant of Old French faceon, fazon, façon (“fashion, form, make, outward appearance”), from Latin factiō (“a making”), from faciō (“do, make”); see fact. Doublet of faction.