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fashion
/ˈfæʃ.ən/
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What does fashion mean?
noun
- A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.
- Popular trends, especially in clothing; the industry that designs clothing and sometimes other related items.
- A style or manner in which something is done.
More meanings (6)
noun
- The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; workmanship; execution.
- (dated) Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding.
verb
- To make, build or construct, especially in a crude or improvised way.
- (dated) To make in a standard manner; to work.
- (dated) To fit, adapt, or accommodate to.
- (obsolete) To forge or counterfeit.
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IPA pronunciation
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Mrs. Andrews’ only acquaintance with the word “genius” was derived from the colloquial fashion of calling any eccentric individual “a queer genius.”
“Now that it is all settled, my friends, allow me to treat you after French fashion. Let us be off to breakfast!”
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Yes, and handsome, after a rude fashion, and clothed with ivy from base to summit, as with a shirt of scale mail.
Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.
She had sometimes taken pupils in a peripatetic fashion, making them follow her about in the kitchen with their book or slate.