fashion
/ˈfæʃ.ən/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.82 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.
Countable
noun
Popular trends, especially in clothing; the industry that designs clothing and sometimes other related items.
Uncountable
noun
The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; workmanship; execution.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding.
Countable; Dated; Uncountable
verb
To make, build or construct, especially in a crude or improvised way.
Example Sentences
- "The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years."
- "Check out the latest in fashion."
- "He had always been interested in fashion, so he decided to take a sewing class."
- "the innocent diversions in fashion"
- "As now existing, fashion is a form of social regulation analogous to constitutional government as a form of political regulation: displaying, as it does, a compromise between governmental coercion and individual freedom."
- "the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *dʰeh₁-, facioun, fechoun, factiō
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈfæʃ.ən/
- British English: /ˈfæʃ.ən/