# fashion

Pronunciation: say "FASH-uhn" /ˈfæʃən/

## Noun

1. Popular trends in clothing, and the industry that designs garments and sometimes other related items.
   - Simple: Popular styles of clothing, and the business of designing and making clothes.
   - _After graduating, he moved to Milan to build a career in fashion._
   - _Bright colors are in fashion again this spring._
2. A particular way or manner in which something is carried out.
   - Simple: A way or style in which something is done.
   - _She arranged the files in a methodical fashion before the audit._
   - _The negotiations proceeded in a friendly, cooperative fashion._
3. A style, custom, or activity that is popular for a time, often only briefly.
   - Simple: Something that many people like or do for a time, often only for a short while.
   - _Collecting novelty erasers became a brief fashion among the schoolchildren._
   - _Slang words rise and fall as each new fashion sweeps through teenage speech._
5. The make or form of a thing: its shape, appearance, structure, and the quality of its workmanship.
   - Simple: The shape and make of something, and how well it is put together.
   - _The cathedral's windows are remarkable for the delicate fashion of their stonework._
   - _Experts dated the sword by its fashion: the shape of the hilt and the way the blade had been forged pointed to a Spanish workshop._

## Verb

4. To make, shape, or build something, often by hand or from whatever materials are at hand.
   - Simple: To make something, often with your hands or from things you can find.
   - _She fashioned a fishing rod from a stick and some string._
   - _Stranded hikers often fashion shelters out of branches and leaves._

## Verb

6. To fit, adapt, or accommodate something to a particular purpose or situation. *(dated)*
   - Simple: To change something so that it fits a need or situation.
   - _She fashioned her speech to the temper of the waiting crowd._
   - _Skilled tutors fashion their lessons to each pupil's ability._
8. To forge, counterfeit, or falsely contrive something. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: To make a fake copy of something in order to trick people.

## Noun

7. Genteel, fashionable society; high social position and the good breeding associated with it. *(dated)*
   - Simple: High society and the polite, well-bred world of people with social standing.
   - _She had long moved in circles of fashion, dining with lords and ladies._
   - _In the novel, a banker's daughter comes to the city hoping to be received by people of fashion, whose drawing rooms stay closed to new money._

## Origin

Latin factiō ('a making'), from faciō ('do, make'), is the source; it gave Old French façon ('fashion, form, make, outward appearance'), whose Anglo-Norman variant fechoun became Middle English facioun. The word is therefore a doublet of faction.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/fashion (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).