fashion
English
Alternative forms
- fascion (obsolete)
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfæʃən/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -æʃən
Noun
fashion (countable and uncountable, plural fashions)
- (countable) A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess:
- 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.
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- (uncountable) Popular trends.
- Check out the latest in fashion.
- John Locke
- the innocent diversions in fashion
- H. Spencer
- As now existing, fashion is a form of social regulation analogous to constitutional government as a form of political regulation.
- (countable) A style or manner in which something is done.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter V
- 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.
- Shakespeare
- OPHELIA - My lord, he hath importuned me with love in honourable fashion. LORD POLONIUS - Ay, fashion you may call it; go to, go to.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter V
- The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; workmanship; execution.
- the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.
- Bible, Luke ix. 29
- The fashion of his countenance was altered.
- Shakespeare
- I do not like the fashion of your garments.
- (dated) Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding.
- men of fashion
Derived terms
Terms derived from the noun fashion
- after a fashion
- antifashion
- antifashionable
- cyberfashion
- fashionable
- fashionably
- fashion collection
- fashion-conscious
- fashion contest
- fashion designer
- fashionese
- fashion-forward
- fashion house
- fashionist
- fashionista
- fashionless
- fashion model
- fashionmonger
- fashion piece
- fashion plate
- fashion police
- fashion sense
- fashion show
- fashion statement
- fashion victim
- fashionwear
- fashion week
- fashionwise
- fashiony
- high fashion
- in fashion
- like it's going out of fashion
- new-fashioned
- nonfashion
- old-fashioned
- out of fashion
- parrot-fashion
- retrofashion
- slave to fashion
- so fashion
- tailor-fashion
- woman-fashion
Related terms
Descendants
- Bislama: fasin
- → Bengali: ফ্যাশন (pphaśôn)
- → Burmese: ဖက်ရှင် (hpakhrang)
- → Hindi: फ़ैशन (faiśan)
- → Japanese: ファッション (fasshon)
- → Korean: 패션 (paesyeon)
- → Malay: fesyen
- Indonesian: fesyen
- → Scottish Gaelic: fasan (perhaps)
- → Sotho: feshene
- → Spanish: fashion
- → Thai: แฟชั่น (fɛɛ-chân)
- → Urdu: فیشن (faiśan)
- → Welsh: ffasiwn
Translations
current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons
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style, or manner, in which to do something
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popular trends
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Verb
fashion (third-person singular simple present fashions, present participle fashioning, simple past and past participle fashioned)
- To make, build or construct, especially in a crude or improvised way.
- 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.
- 2005, Plato, Sophist, translation by Lesley Brown, 235b:
- […] a device fashioned by arguments against that kind of prey.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IX
- (dated) To make in a standard manner; to work.
- John Locke
- Fashioned plate sells for more than its weight.
- John Locke
- (dated) To fit, adapt, or accommodate to.
- Spenser
- Laws ought to be fashioned to the manners and conditions of the people.
- Spenser
- (obsolete) To forge or counterfeit.
- Shakespeare
- Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit; All with me's meet that I can fashion feet.
- Shakespeare
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- fashion in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- fashion in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfɛ.ʃõ/
Spanish
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