Fashion Definition

făshən
fashioned, fashioning, fashions
noun
fashions
The current style or mode of dress, speech, conduct, etc.
Webster's New World
The way in which something is made or done; manner.
Webster's New World
Kind; sort.
Webster's New World
Something, esp. a garment, in the current style.
Webster's New World
The make, form, or shape of a thing.
Webster's New World
verb
fashioned, fashioning, fashions
To make in a certain way; give a certain form to; shape; mold.
Webster's New World
To train or influence into a particular state or character.
The teacher fashions her students into fine singers.
American Heritage
To fit; accommodate (to)
Music fashioned to popular taste.
Webster's New World
To adapt, as to a purpose or an occasion.
American Heritage
To think up; contrive.
Webster's New World
idiom
after
  • In some way or other, especially to a limited extent:

    She sings after a fashion.

American Heritage
after a fashion
  • in some way or to some extent, but not thoroughly or very well
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Fashion

Noun

Singular:
fashion
Plural:
fashions

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Origin of Fashion

  • From Middle English facioun, from Anglo-Norman, from Old Northern French féchoun (compare Jèrriais faichon), variant of Old French faceon, fazon, façon (“fashion, form, make, outward appearance”), from Latin factiō (“a making”), from faciō (“do, make”); see fact. Compare faction, a doublet of fashion.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English facioun from Old French façon appearance, manner from Latin factiō factiōn- a making from factus past participle of facere to make, do dhē- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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