fashion

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English

Alternative forms

• fascion (obsolete)

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfæʃən/
• Rhymes: -æʃən

Noun

fashion (countable and uncountable, plural fashions)

1. (countable) A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.
2. (uncountable) Popular trends, especially in clothing; the industry that designs clothing and sometimes other related items.
   • 1874-1896, Herbert Spencer, Principles of Sociology Part IV

     As now existing, fashion is a form of social regulation analogous to constitutional government as a form of political regulation.

3. (countable) 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. (dated) Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding.

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Verb

fashion (third-person singular simple present fashions, present participle fashioning, simple past and past participle fashioned)

1. To make, build or construct, especially in a crude or improvised way.
   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IX

     I have three gourds which I fill with water and take back to my cave against the long nights. I have fashioned a spear and a bow and arrow, that I may conserve my ammunition, which is running low.
2. (dated) To make in a standard manner; to work.
3. (dated) To fit, adapt, or accommodate to.
4. (obsolete) To forge or counterfeit.

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Further reading

• “fashion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “fashion”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Chinese

Etymology

Borrowed from English fashion. Doublet of 花臣.

Pronunciation

Adjective

fashion

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, Taiwanese Mandarin) fashionable

Noun

fashion

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) fashion (trend)

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English fashion. Doublet of facção and feição.

Pronunciation

Adjective

fashion (invariable)

1. (slang) fashionable, trendy

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English fashion. Doublet of facción.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaʃjon/ [ˈfa.ʃjõn]
• Rhymes: -aʃjon
• Syllabification: fa‧shion

Adjective

fashion (invariable)

1. fashionable, trendy

Derived terms

Noun

fashion m (plural fashions or fashion)

1. fashion

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.