fashion
(noun) characteristic or habitual practice
fashion
(noun) consumer goods (especially clothing) in the current mode
manner, mode, style, way, fashion
(noun) how something is done or how it happens; āher dignified mannerā; āhis rapid manner of talkingā; ātheir nomadic mode of existenceā; āin the characteristic New York styleā; āa lonely way of lifeā; āin an abrasive fashionā
fashion
(noun) the latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior
fashion, forge
(verb) make out of components (often in an improvising manner); āShe fashioned a tent out of a sheet and a few sticksā
Source: WordNet® 3.1
fashion (countable and uncountable, plural fashions)
(countable) A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.
(uncountable) Popular trends.
(countable) A style or manner in which something is done.
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.
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.
(dated) To make in a standard manner; to work.
(dated) To fit, adapt, or accommodate to.
(obsolete) To forge or counterfeit.
Source: Wiktionary
Fash"ion, n. Etym: [OE. fasoun, facioun, shape, manner, F. facon, orig., a making, fr. L. factio a making, fr. facere to make. See Fact, Feat, and cf. Faction.]
1. 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. The fashion of his countenance was altered. Luke ix. 29. I do not like the fashion of your garments. Shak.
2. 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. The innocent diversions in fashion. Locke. As now existing, fashion is a form of social regulation analogous to constitutional government as a form of political regulation. H. Spencer.
3. Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding; as, men of fashion.
4. Mode of action; method of conduct; manner; custom; sort; way. "After his sour fashion." Shak. After a fashion, to a certain extent; in a sort.
– Fashion piece (Naut.), one of the timbers which terminate the transom, and define the shape of the stern.
– Fashion plate, a pictorial design showing the prevailing style or a new style of dress. in a sort s.b. of a sort
Fash"ion, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fashioned; p. pr. & vb. n. Fashioning.] Etym: [Cf. F. faconner.]
1. To form; to give shape or figure to; to mold. Here the loud hammer fashions female toys. Gay. Ingenious art . . . Steps forth to fashion and refine the age. Cowper.
2. To fit; to adapt; to accommodate; -- with to. Laws ought to be fashioned to the manners and conditions of the people. Spenser.
3. To make according to the rule prescribed by custom. Fashioned plate sells for more than its weight. Locke.
4. To forge or counterfeit. [Obs.] Shak. Fashioning needle (Knitting Machine), a needle used for widening or narrowing the work and thus shaping it.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., āthe father of the brideā instead of āthe brideās fatherā
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be ādancingā after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. Thatās how the first coffee drink was born.
