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fashion
[ fash-uhn ]
noun
- 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.
verb (used with object)
fashion
/ ˈfæʃən /
noun
- 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 oflike; similar to
- of fashionof high social standing
verb
- to give a particular form to
- to make suitable or fitting
- obsolete.to contrive; manage
Derived Forms
- ˈfashioner, noun
Other Words From
- fashion·less adjective
- anti·fashion noun adjective
- mis·fashion noun
- mis·fashioned adjective
- pre·fashion verb (used with object) noun
- pre·fashioned adjective
- re·fashion verb (used with object)
- trans·fashion noun
- un·fashioned adjective
- well-fashioned adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of fashion1
Idioms and Phrases
- 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.
More idioms and phrases containing fashion
see after a fashion ; in fashion .Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Her name was Courtney, and she was a fashion editor for magazines like Photoplay, Screenland, Silver Screen.
Good for her—but what a shameful indictment of Planet Fashion.
Both high fashion and the fast, commercial fashion of Target are supposed to be about aspiration.
When ‘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.
It was a decayed house of superb proportions, but of a fashion long passed away.
Truth 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.
At 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.
In his childlike, impulsive fashion he had not thought of the future when he adopted Jean.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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