fashion
Forms
- Plural
- fashions
- present (v1)
- fashion
- past (v2)
- fashioned
- past participle (v3)
- fashioned
- present participle
- fashioning
- 3rd person singular
- fashions
Definitions
1.A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.
2.Popular trends, especially in clothing; the industry that designs clothing and sometimes other related items.
- Check out the latest in fashion.
- He had always been interested in fashion, so he decided to take a sewing class.
- As now existing, fashion is a form of social regulation analogous to constitutional government as a form of political regulation: displaying, as it does, a compromise between governmental coercion and individual freedom.
3.A style or manner in which something is done.
- It shell-shocked the home crowd, who quickly demanded a response, which came midway through the half and in emphatic fashion.
- When it had advanced from the wood, it hopped much after the fashion of a kangaroo, using its hind feet and tail to propel it, and when it stood erect, it sat upon its tail.
4.The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; workmanship; execution.
- I do not like the fashion of your garments.
- The fashion of his countenance was altered.
- My word! Well, you should have my colorful fashions to thank.
1.To make, build or construct, especially in a crude or improvised way.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2077
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
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.