fashion
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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.
Inflected forms:
form: fashions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fascion
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: fashions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fashioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fashioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fashioned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: fascion
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: 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.
gloss: Popular trends, especially in clothing; the industry that designs clothing and sometimes other related items.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Check out the latest in fashion.
He had always been interested in fashion, so he decided to take a sewing class.
the innocent diversions in fashion
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.
gloss: A style or manner in which something is done.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.
Ophelia: My lord, he hath importuned me with love in honourable fashion.
Lord Polonius: Ay, fashion you may call it; go to, go to.
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.
It shell-shocked the home crowd, who quickly demanded a response, which came midway through the half and in emphatic fashion.
gloss: The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; workmanship; execution.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
examples: men of fashion
gloss: To make, build or construct, especially in a crude or improvised way.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
[…] a device fashioned by arguments against that kind of prey.
gloss: To make in a standard manner; to work.
pos: verb
tags: dated
examples: Fashioned plate sells for more than its weight.
gloss: To fit, adapt, or accommodate to.
pos: verb
tags: dated
examples: Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people.
gloss: To forge or counterfeit.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit; All with me's meet that I can fashion feet.
Related words: fact
faction
factional
factor
factorial
factory
Derived words: after a fashion
alternative fashion
antifashion
antifashionable
Bristol fashion and shipshape
shipshape and Bristol fashion
circular fashion
clean fashion
cyberfashion
doggy fashion
fashionable
fashionably
fashional
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
Lolita fashion
new-fashioned
nonfashion
old-fashion
old-fashioned
out of fashion
parrot fashion
retrofashion
slave to fashion
slow fashion
so fashion
tailor-fashion
trashion
ultra-fast fashion
woman-fashion
woman fashion
disfashion
fashioner
fashioning needle
misfashion
newfashion
refashion
unfashion
unfashioned
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