English Explanatory Dictionary

fashion

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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.
  3. A style or manner in which something is done.
  4. The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; workmanship; execution.
  5. Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding.
verb
  1. To make, build or construct, especially in a crude or improvised way.
  2. To make in a standard manner; to work.
  3. To fit, adapt, or accommodate to.
  4. To forge or counterfeit.

Pronunciation

/ˈfæʃən/ [ˈfæʃən] ~ [ˈfæʃn̩] en-us-fashion.ogg

Word forms

fashion fashions fascion fashioning fashioned

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.

Related words

fact faction factional factor factorial factory

Derived words

after a fashion alternative fashion antifashion antifashionable circular fashion clean fashion cyberfashion doggy fashion fashionable fashionably fashional fashion collection fashion-conscious fashion contest fashioncore fashion design fashion designer fashion doll fashionese fashion-forward fashion house fashionism fashionist fashionista fashionize fashionless fashion model fashionmonger fashion parade fashion piece fashion plate fashion police fashion sense fashion show fashion statement fashion tape fashion victim fashionwear fashion week fashionwise fashiony fast-fashion fast fashion fatshion high fashion in fashion J-fashion like it's going out of fashion lolita fashion new-fashioned nonfashion old-fashion old-fashioned out of fashion parrot fashion retrofashion shipshape and Bristol fashion slave to fashion slow fashion so fashion
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