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fashion

Pronunciation: /ˈfæʃ.ən/

The English word “fashion” has 9 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.
  2. Popular trends, especially in clothing; the industry that designs clothing and sometimes other related items.
  3. A style or manner in which something is done.
  4. The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; workmanship; execution.
  5. Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding.

verb

  1. To make, build or construct, especially in a crude or improvised way.
  2. To make in a standard manner; to work.
  3. To fit, adapt, or accommodate to.
  4. To forge or counterfeit.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English facioun, from Anglo-Norman fechoun (compare Jersey Norman faichon), variant of Old French faceon, fazon, façon (“fashion, form, make, outward appearance”), from Latin factiō (“a making”), from faciō (“do, make”); see fact. Doublet of faction.

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