The prevailing style or custom, as in dress or behavior: out of fashion.
Something, such as a garment, that is in the current mode: a swimsuit that is the latest fashion.
The style characteristic of the social elite: a man of fashion.
Manner or mode; way: Set the table in this fashion.
A personal, often idiosyncratic manner: played the violin in his own curious fashion.
Kind or variety; sort: people of all fashions.
Shape or form; configuration.
tr.v.
fash·ioned, fash·ion·ing, fash·ions
To give shape or form to; make: fashioned a table from a redwood burl.
To train or influence into a particular state or character.
To adapt, as to a purpose or an occasion; accommodate.
Obsolete To contrive.
[Middle English facioun, from Old French façon, appearance, manner, from Latin factiō, factiōn-, a making, from factus, past participle of facere, to make, do; see dhē- in Indo-European roots.] fash'ion·er n.
Synonyms: These nouns refer to a prevailing or preferred manner of dress, adornment, behavior, or way of life at a given time. Fashion, the broadest term, usually refers to what accords with conventions adopted by polite society or by any culture or subculture: a time when long hair was the fashion. Style is sometimes used interchangeably with fashion, but like mode often stresses adherence to standards of elegance: traveling in style; miniskirts that were the mode in the late sixties. Vogue is applied to fashion that prevails widely and often suggests enthusiastic but short-lived acceptance: a video game that was in vogue a few years ago. See Also Synonyms at method.
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