Fashion
['fæʃ(ə)n] or ['fæʃən]
Definition
(noun.) characteristic or habitual practice.
(noun.) consumer goods (especially clothing) in the current mode.
(noun.) the latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior.
(verb.) make out of components (often in an improvising manner); 'She fashioned a tent out of a sheet and a few sticks'.
Typist: Lycurgus--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.; workmanship; execution.
(n.) The prevailing mode or style, especially of dress; custom or conventional usage in respect of dress, behavior, etiquette, etc.; particularly, the mode or style usual among persons of good breeding; as, to dress, dance, sing, ride, etc., in the fashion.
(n.) Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding; as, men of fashion.
(n.) Mode of action; method of conduct; manner; custom; sort; way.
(v. t.) To form; to give shape or figure to; to mold.
(v. t.) To fit; to adapt; to accommodate; -- with to.
(v. t.) To make according to the rule prescribed by custom.
(v. t.) To forge or counterfeit.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Form, figure, shape, make, cut, cast, stamp, mould, pattern, model, appearance, conformation, configuration.[2]. Way, manner, method, sort.[3]. Custom (particularly as respects dress), mode, style, usage, conventionality, conventionalism, general practice.[4]. Gentility, genteel life.
v. a. [1]. Form, shape, mould, carve, make, give figure to.[2]. Adapt, accommodate, fit, suit, adjust.
Checker: Mattie
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Form, shape, guise, style, appearance, character, figure, mould, mode, custom,practice, usage, manner, way, ceremony
ANT:Person, work, dress, speech, formlessness, shapelessness, derangement,eccentricity, strangeness, outlandishness
Edited by Leopold
Definition
n. the make or cut of a thing: form or pattern: prevailing mode or shape of dress: a prevailing custom: manner: genteel society: appearance.—v.t. to make: to mould according to a pattern: to suit or adapt.—adj. Fash′ionable made according to prevailing fashion: prevailing or in use at any period: observant of the fashion in dress or living: moving in high society: patronised by people of fashion.—n. a person of fashion.—n. Fash′ionableness.—adv. Fash′ionably.—ns. Fash′ioner; Fash′ionist.—adjs. Fash′ionmongering Fash′ionmonging (Shak.) behaving like a fop.—After or In a fashion in a way: to a certain extent; In the fashion in accordance with the prevailing style of dress &c.—opp. to Out of fashion.
Editor: Nolan
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.
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Examples
- From the window of Worcester's barrack-room I used to amuse myself reviewing our troops, but not after the fashion of Catharine of Russia. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Mrs Boffin has carried the day, and we're going in neck and crop for Fashion. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Really, girls, you are both to be blamed, said Meg, beginning to lecture in her elder-sisterly fashion. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- On the edge of her consciousness the question was asking itself, automatically: 'Why ARE you behaving in this IMPOSSIBLE and ridiculous fashion. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Apparently it carried this vast body kangaroo fashion on its tail and hind legs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Mr and Mrs Boffin, sitting side by side, with Fashion withdrawn to an immeasurable distance, fell to discussing how they could best find their orphan. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The English men of fashion in Paris courted her, too, to the disgust of the ladies their wives, who could not bear the parvenue. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He's one o' th' oud-fashioned sort. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Walk in, Mr. Franklin, he said, opening the door behind him, with his quaint old-fashioned bow. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- And Mr. Laurence offered her his arm with old-fashioned courtesy. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- They were about the size of those seen in old-fashioned country hotels for holding the wash-bowl and pitcher. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Halliday turned objectionable, and I only just saved myself from jumping in his stomach, in a real old-fashioned row. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I'm a very old-fashioned wife. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Five Years Later Tellson's Bank by Temple Bar was an old-fashioned place, even in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Do you know that Brummell is cut amongst us, and who do you think sets the fashions there now? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I would exactly set down the several changes in customs, language, fashions of dress, diet, and diversions. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The gentlemen were dressed in the very latest Paris fashions, and the robes of the ladies glinted among the trees like so many snowflakes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But the wager of battle is complete, even according to the fantastic fashions of Norman chivalry--Is it not, Father Aymer? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The first part of Mrs. Gardiner's business on her arrival was to distribute her presents and describe the newest fashions. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I could even drive out ten miles to dine at a neighbour's, and dress in the fashions of the year before last. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Why not make one's own fashions? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Fire melts ore and allows of the forging of iron, as in the blacksmith's shop, and of the fashioning of innumerable objects serviceable to man. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- There were women grinding dried plantain in crude stone mortars, while others were fashioning cakes from the powdered flour. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- He compares himself to a smith forced to begin at the beginning by fashioning tools with which to work. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The writer is not fashioning his ideas into an artistic whole; they take possession of him and are too much for him. Plato. The Republic.
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