fashion

Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/ˈfæʃ.ən/]

Show answer

Senses

1. fashion (noun) — sense 1

Definition: A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.

Example: The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.

2. fashion (noun) — sense 2

Definition: Popular trends, especially in clothing; the industry that designs clothing and sometimes other related items.

Example: Check out the latest in fashion.

3. fashion (noun) — sense 3

Definition: A style or manner in which something is done.

Example: the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.

4. fashion (verb) — sense 4

Definition: To make, build or construct, especially in a crude or improvised way.

Example: […] a device fashioned by arguments against that kind of prey.

5. fashion (verb) — sense 5

Definition: To make in a standard manner; to work.

Example: Fashioned plate sells for more than its weight.

6. fashion (verb) — sense 6

Definition: To fit, adapt, or accommodate to.

Example: Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people.

Structure of the word

Roots:

dʰeh₁ (Proto-Indo-European)

Connections

Roots: dʰeh₁

Comments are not enabled for this type of record.

There is no text to translate.