Definition

1. Noun:

   • The prevailing style or custom, especially in clothing, accessories, or behavior: "Fashion" refers to the popular way of dressing or behaving during a particular time or among a particular group of people.
   • A manner or way of doing something: "Fashion" can also mean a particular method, mode, or style in which something is done or happens.
   • A kind or type: It can refer to something that is made or formed in a particular way.

2. Verb:

   • To make, shape, or form something, often in a skillful or inventive way: "Fashion" means to create or construct something, typically from available materials, sometimes in an improvised manner.

Examples of Usage

• Noun:

  • She always keeps up with the latest fashion. (She always follows the newest styles in clothing.)
  • He spoke in a very direct fashion. (He spoke in a very direct manner.)
  • They solved the problem in an unusual fashion. (They solved the problem in an unusual way.)

• Verb:

  • The artist fashioned a sculpture from scrap metal. (The artist created a sculpture from scrap metal.)
  • They fashioned a shelter from branches and leaves. (They constructed a shelter from branches and leaves.)

Advanced Usage

• "After a fashion": in a way, but not very well; to a certain extent but not perfectly.

  • He can cook, after a fashion. (He can cook, but not very skillfully.)

• "In fashion" / "Out of fashion": currently popular and stylish / no longer popular or stylish.

  • Wide ties are back in fashion this season. (Wide ties are stylish again this season.)
  • That style of hat has been out of fashion for years. (That style of hat has not been stylish for years.)

• "To set the fashion": to start a new style or trend that others follow.

  • The designer set the fashion for bold colors. (The designer started the trend for bold colors.)

Variants and Related Words

• Fashionable (adj): following or conforming to the current fashion; stylish.
  • It's a fashionable neighborhood with many boutiques.
• Fashionably (adv): in a fashionable manner.
  • She arrived fashionably late to the party.
• Fashioner (n): one who fashions or makes something. (Less common)
• Old-fashioned (adj): belonging to or characteristic of a past style; not modern.
  • He has old-fashioned manners.

Synonyms

• Noun (style): Trend, vogue, mode, style, craze.
• Noun (manner): Way, manner, mode, method, style.
• Verb: Make, create, construct, shape, form, craft.

Related Phrases (Phrasal Verbs)

(Note: "Fashion" is not commonly used in phrasal verb constructions. Its verbal use is typically transitive, followed directly by an object.)

Related Idioms

• "After the fashion of (someone/something)": in the style of; similar to.
  • He writes after the fashion of Hemingway. (He writes in a style similar to Hemingway's.)
• "In one's own fashion": in one's own particular way or style.
  • She solved the puzzle in her own fashion. (She solved it using her own unique method.)
• "Parade of fashion": a display of the latest clothing styles, such as a fashion show.
  • The event featured a grand parade of fashion.

Noun

1. consumer goods (especially clothing) in the current mode
2. the latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior
3. characteristic or habitual practice
4. how something is done or how it happens
   • her dignified manner
   • his rapid manner of talking
   • their nomadic mode of existence
   • in the characteristic New York style
   • a lonely way of life
   • in an abrasive fashion

Verb

1. make out of components (often in an improvising manner)
   • She fashioned a tent out of a sheet and a few sticks