Definitions for fashion

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fashion fash·ion

Spelling: [fash-uh n]

IPA: /ˈfæʃ ən/

Fashion is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 164 anagrams from letters in fashion (afhinos).

Definitions for fashion

noun

1. a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.:
2. conventional usage in dress, manners, etc., especially of polite society, or conformity to it:
3. manner; way; mode:
4. the make or form of anything:
5. a kind; sort:
6. Obsolete. workmanship.
7. Obsolete. act or process of making.

Idioms

1. after / in a fashion, in some manner or other or to some extent; in a makeshift, unskillful, or unsatisfactory way:

verb (used with object)

1. to give a particular shape or form to; make:
2. to accommodate; adjust; adapt:
3. Shipbuilding. to bend (a plate) without preheating.
4. Obsolete. to contrive; manage.

Origin of fashion

1250-1300; Middle English facioun shape, manner Anglo-French faço(u)n, façun, Old French faceon Latin factiōn- (stem of factiō) a doing, company. See faction¹

Examples for fashion

No shaft that Percival was able to fashion had point enough to pierce it.

Be a brother after thy own fashion, only see it be a brother thou art.

"But they must be sorry folk to bow down to the rich in such a fashion," said big John.

Her name was Courtney, and she was a fashion editor for magazines like Photoplay, Screenland, Silver Screen.

But she was less comfortable with it before she was an established name in fashion.

But fashion is about beauty, and the [female] body is part of that.

He has an air, it is true, but his air is not a breeze, like the air of a pretender to fashion.

When ‘Downton Abbey’ returns Sunday night, its fashion fans are in for a familiar treat.

The fashion industry could never, would never, state its exclusion of black models overtly.

For half an hour he rode in this fashion with his heart beating at his teeth.