fashion

See also -fashion

Pronunciation

• IPA ^(key): /ˈfæʃən/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

Singular fashion

Plural fashions

1. (countable & uncountable) A fashion is a style, often clothing, that is popular at a particular time and place.

   The fashion was for men to have long hair.

   At 62, he drives a small old car, and doesn't follow fashion trends.

   The models in their fancy fashions walked past the rich women in their seats.

2. (countable) A fashion is a way or manner.

   It's a good idea to pay what you owe in a timely fashion.

   I could see that she had made the list in her typical well-organized fashion.

   Hockey players fight all the time, but football players rarely act in a similar fashion.

3. (uncountable) The fashion business is the business of designing and making clothes.

   Lagerfeld is the current designer for the Chanel fashion house.

   Women who wanted to wear modern styles had them copied from Western fashion magazines by local dressmakers.

Related words

• fashionable
• fashionably
• fashionista
• unfashionable
• unfashionably

Verb

Plain form fashion

Third-person singular fashions

Past tense fashioned

Past participle fashioned

Present participle fashioning

1. (transitive) If you fashion something, you design and make it, usually by hand.

   He makes beautiful art fashioned from simple things he gets from the garbage.