fashion
Fashion is defined as a popular way of dressing or speaking.
(noun)An example of fashion is a favored style on the fashion designers talent contest on the television show "Project Runway."
The definition of fashion is to make or give form to.
(verb)An example of fashion is to create a paper airplane.
See fashion in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
- the make, form, or shape of a thing
- Now Rare kind; sort
- the way in which something is made or done; manner
- the current style or mode of dress, speech, conduct, etc.
- something, esp. a garment, in the current style
- fashionable people as a group: a man of fashion
Origin: ME fasoun < OFr faceon < L factio, a making: see faction
transitive verb
- to make in a certain way; give a certain form to; shape; mold
- to fit; accommodate (to): music fashioned to our taste
- Obsolete to think up; contrive
Related Forms:
- fashioner noun
See fashion in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- The prevailing style or custom, as in dress or behavior: out of fashion.
- Something, such as a garment, that is in the current mode: a swimsuit that is the latest fashion.
- The style characteristic of the social elite: a man of fashion.
- a. Manner or mode; way: Set the table in this fashion.b. A personal, often idiosyncratic manner: played the violin in his own curious fashion.
- Kind or variety; sort: people of all fashions.
- Shape or form; configuration.
- To give shape or form to; make: fashioned a table from a redwood burl.
- To train or influence into a particular state or character.
- To adapt, as to a purpose or an occasion; accommodate.
- Obsolete To contrive.
Origin:
Origin: Middle English facioun
Origin: , from Old French façon, appearance, manner
Origin: , from Latin factiō, factiōn-, a making
Origin: , from factus
Origin: , past participle of facere, to make, do; see dhē- in Indo-European roots
.Related Forms:
- fashˈion·er noun
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