FASHION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fashion mean? 

• FASHION (noun)
  The noun FASHION has 4 senses:

1. how something is done or how it happens

2. characteristic or habitual practice

3. the latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior

4. consumer goods (especially clothing) in the current mode

  Familiarity information: FASHION used as a noun is uncommon.

• FASHION (verb)
  The verb FASHION has 1 sense:

1. make out of components (often in an improvising manner)

  Familiarity information: FASHION used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FASHION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

How something is done or how it happens

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

fashion; manner; mode; style; way

Context example:

in an abrasive fashion

Hypernyms ("fashion" is a kind of...):

property (a basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fashion"):

artistic style; idiom (the style of a particular artist or school or movement)

response (the manner in which an electrical or mechanical device responds to an input signal or a range of input signals)

wise (a way of doing or being)

signature; touch (a distinguishing style)

setup (the way something is organized or arranged)

life-style; life style; lifestyle; modus vivendi (a manner of living that reflects the person's values and attitudes)

form (a particular mode in which something is manifested)

fit (the manner in which something fits)

drape (the manner in which fabric hangs or falls)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Characteristic or habitual practice

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("fashion" is a kind of...):

pattern; practice (a customary way of operation or behavior)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fashion"):

line of least resistance; path of least resistance (the easiest way)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("fashion" is a kind of...):

style; trend; vogue (the popular taste at a given time)

Domain member category:

cut; tailor (style and tailor in a certain fashion)

style (make consistent with a certain fashion or style)

come in (come into fashion; become fashionable)

go out (go out of fashion; become unfashionable)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fashion"):

cult of personality (intense devotion to a particular person)

cut (the style in which a garment is cut)

haute couture; high fashion; high style (trend-setting fashions)

craze; cult; fad; furor; furore; rage (an interest followed with exaggerated zeal)

retro (a fashion reminiscent of the past)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Consumer goods (especially clothing) in the current mode

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("fashion" is a kind of...):

consumer goods (goods (as food or clothing) intended for direct use or consumption)

• FASHION (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they fashion    ... he / she / it fashions   
Past simple: fashioned   
Past participle: fashioned   
-ing form: fashioning   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make out of components (often in an improvising manner)

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

fashion; forge

Context example:

She fashioned a tent out of a sheet and a few sticks

Hypernyms (to "fashion" is one way to...):

make (make by shaping or bringing together constituents)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fashion"):

tie (make by tying pieces together)

craft (make by hand and with much skill)

sew; tailor; tailor-make (create (clothes) with cloth)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They fashion the cape

Derivation:

fashioning (the act that results in something coming to be)

 Context examples 

He did not reason the question out in this man fashion.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

You may be getting an exhibit ready for a museum or studying fashions from the past to design a new collection.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The waiting was tiresome and wearing, and at last they grew vexed that Oz should treat them in so poor a fashion, after sending them to undergo hardships and slavery.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

You compel me to tell you that this is too serious a matter to be treated in such a fashion.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But fashions are like human beings.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I had always been pretty sharp in the office, but I had never dreamed that I was talked about in the City in this fashion.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had many acquaintance, and among persons of the best fashion; and being always attended by my interpreter, the conversation we had was not disagreeable.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

‘Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the most excellent offers in this fashion,’ said she sharply.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The method can be used in a “multiplexed” fashion – that is, targeting and mutating multiple genes at the same time to determine their functions.

(A new role for zebrafish: larger scale gene function studies, NIH)

As spring came on, a new set of amusements became the fashion, and the lengthening days gave long afternoons for work and play of all sorts.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)