'Fashion' definitions:
Definition of 'fashion'
(from WordNet)
noun
How something is done or how it happens; "her dignified manner"; "his rapid manner of talking"; "their nomadic mode of existence"; "in the characteristic New York style"; "a lonely way of life"; "in an abrasive fashion" [syn: manner, mode, style, way, fashion]
noun
Characteristic or habitual practice
noun
The latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior
noun
Consumer goods (especially clothing) in the current mode
verb
Make out of components (often in an improvising manner); "She fashioned a tent out of a sheet and a few sticks" [syn: fashion, forge]
Definition of 'Fashion'
From: GCIDE
- Fashion \Fash"ion\, n. [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.] [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- The fashion of his countenance was altered. --Luke ix. 29. [1913 Webster]
- I do not like the fashion of your garments. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- The innocent diversions in fashion. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- As now existing, fashion is a form of social regulation analogous to constitutional government as a form of political regulation. --H. Spencer. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding; as, men of fashion. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Mode of action; method of conduct; manner; custom; sort; way. "After his sour fashion." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- After a fashion, to a certain extent; of a sort; sort of.
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Fashion'
From: GCIDE
- Fashion \Fash"ion\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fashioned; p. pr. & vb. n. Fashioning.] [Cf. F. faconner.]
- 1. To form; to give shape or figure to; to mold. [1913 Webster]
- Here the loud hammer fashions female toys. --Gay. [1913 Webster]
- Ingenious art . . . Steps forth to fashion and refine the age. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To fit; to adapt; to accommodate; -- with to. [1913 Webster]
- Laws ought to be fashioned to the manners and conditions of the people. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To make according to the rule prescribed by custom. [1913 Webster]
- Fashioned plate sells for more than its weight. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To forge or counterfeit. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Fashioning needle (Knitting Machine), a needle used for widening or narrowing the work and thus shaping it. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'fashion'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aesthetic form,
- affectation,
- algorithm,
- anatomy,
- angle,
- apparel,
- approach,
- archetype,
- architectonics,
- architecture,
- arrangement,
- array,
- art form,
- aspect,
- assemble,
- attack,
- attire,
- attitude,
- bedizenment,
- block out,
- bon ton,
- build,
- building,
- carve,
- cast,
- chic,
- chisel,
- clothes,
- clothing,
- command of language,
- complexion,
- compose,
- composition,
- compound,
- concoct,
- configuration,
- conformation,
- conformity,
- constitution,
- construct,
- construction,
- consuetude,
- contrive,
- convention,
- costume,
- course,
- craze,
- create,
- creation,
- cry,
- custom,
- cut,
- design,
- devise,
- drapery,
- dress,
- dressing,
- drift,
- duds,
- effect,
- efform,
- eidolon,
- elaborate,
- erect,
- established way,
- etiquette,
- evolve,
- exaggeration,
- expression of ideas,
- extrude,
- fabric,
- fabricate,
- fabrication,
- facet,
- fad,
- fashionable,
- fashioning,
- fatigues,
- feathers,
- feature,
- feeling for words,
- fig,
- figuration,
- figure,
- fix,
- folkway,
- forge,
- forging,
- form,
- form of speech,
- formalize,
- format,
- formation,
- formulate,
- found,
- frame,
- fudge together,
- furore,
- garb,
- garments,
- gear,
- genre,
- gestalt,
- get up,
- getup,
- grace of expression,
- grandiloquence,
- guise,
- habiliment,
- habit,
- hew,
- image,
- imago,
- impression,
- in fashion,
- indite,
- inflation,
- inner form,
- investiture,
- investment,
- knead,
- knock out,
- lay out,
- layout,
- lick into shape,
- light,
- likeness,
- line,
- line of action,
- lineaments,
- linen,
- lines,
- literary style,
- look,
- make,
- make up,
- makeup,
- making,
- mania,
- manner,
- manner of speaking,
- manner of working,
- mannerism,
- manners,
- manufacture,
- matrix,
- mature,
- means,
- method,
- methodology,
- mint,
- MO,
- modality,
- mode,
- mode of expression,
- mode of operation,
- mode of procedure,
- model,
- modus,
- modus operandi,
- mold,
- molding,
- mores,
- mould,
- observance,
- order,
- organic structure,
- organism,
- organization,
- patch together,
- pattern,
- patterning,
- peculiarity,
- personal style,
- phase,
- phasis,
- physique,
- piece together,
- plan,
- Platonic form,
- Platonic idea,
- plot,
- practice,
- praxis,
- prefabricate,
- prepare,
- prescription,
- procedure,
- proceeding,
- process,
- produce,
- production,
- proper thing,
- prototype,
- put together,
- put up,
- rage,
- rags,
- raiment,
- raise,
- rear,
- reference,
- regard,
- respect,
- rhetoric,
- ritual,
- robes,
- rough out,
- roughcast,
- roughhew,
- routine,
- run up,
- sculpt,
- sculpture,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sense of language,
- set,
- set up,
- setup,
- shape,
- shaping,
- side,
- significant form,
- simulacrum,
- slant,
- social convention,
- sportswear,
- stamp,
- standard behavior,
- standard usage,
- standing custom,
- strain,
- structure,
- structuring,
- style,
- stylistic analysis,
- stylistics,
- system,
- tack,
- tailor,
- taste,
- technique,
- tectonics,
- tendency,
- tenor,
- texture,
- the drill,
- the grand style,
- the how,
- the in thing,
- the last word,
- the latest thing,
- the plain style,
- the rage,
- the sublime,
- the way of,
- thermoform,
- thing,
- threads,
- time-honored practice,
- tissue,
- togs,
- toilette,
- ton,
- tone,
- total effect,
- tradition,
- trend,
- trick,
- trim,
- turn,
- turn out,
- twig,
- twist,
- type,
- usage,
- use,
- vein,
- vestment,
- vesture,
- view,
- viewpoint,
- vogue,
- warp and woof,
- way,
- wear,
- wearing apparel,
- weave,
- web,
- what is done,
- whomp up,
- wise,
- wont,
- wonting,
- work,
- write
Words containing 'Fashion'
- After a fashion,
- Fashionable,
- Fashionableness,
- Fashionably,
- Fashioned,
- Fashioner,
- Fashioning,
- Fashion piece,
- Fashion plate,
- Fashioning needle,
- Gammoning fashion,
- To set the fashion,
- fashion arbiter,
- fashion business,
- fashion consultant,
- fashion designer,
- fashion industry,
- fashion model,
- fully fashioned,
- high fashion,
- old fashioned,
- Fashion-monger,
- Fashion-mongering,
- full-fashioned,
- old-fashioned,
- old-fashioned outmoded,
- fogyish mossgrown mossy stick-in-the-mudprenominal stodgy old-fashioned