fad
/fæd/
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Northumbria/faːd/
fad noun: a phenomenon that becomes popular for a very short time.
Noun (1)
fad (plural fads)
- A phenomenon that becomes popular for a very short time.
- You're a fad, that means you're something that we've already had, but once you're gone, you don't come back.2004, Andre R. Young, “Encore”, in Encore
- The pet rock fad was started by an advertising executive named Gary Dahl. The premise was simple: take ordinary rocks, glue eyes on them, and market them as pets.2010, Eric J. Cesal, Down Detour Road: An Architect in Search of Practice, page 134
Noun (2) capitalized: FAD
FAD (uncountable)
- Initialism of flavin adenine dinucleotide.
fad meaning in Malayalam, Odia, Tagalog and Arabic
fad in Malayalam
- ഫാഡ്
fad in Odia
- ଫ୍ଯ଼ାଡ
fad in Tagalog
- phenomenon
- uso
fad in Arabic
- phenomenon
- تَقْلِيعَة taqlīʕa
Examples of fad in a sentence
- That fad went out with the eighties, but I think it's making a comeback.
- The supermarket glossies are full of celebrity gossip and fad diets.
- The fad has gained a sure hold on every teenager.
Forms of fad
| plural | fads |
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Origin of fad
Of English dialectal origin. Further origin obscure. Possibly from Old English ġefæd (“order, decorum”) (compare Old English ġefæd (“orderly, tidy”), fadian, ġefadian (“to set in order, arrange”), whence Middle English faden (“to arrange”)); or from French fadaise ("a trifling thought"; see fadaise).
Words formed from fad
Phrases with fad
Words that rhyme with fad
Questions about fad
- What does fad mean?
- Fad means a phenomenon that becomes popular for a very short time.
- What is fad in Malayalam?
- Fad in Malayalam is ഫാഡ്. See Fad meaning in Malayalam.
- What part of speech is fad?
- Fad is a noun.
- How do you pronounce fad?
- Fad is pronounced /fæd/.
- What is the plural of fad?
- The plural of fad is fads.
Words near fad in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: fad (page history and authors); FAD (page history and authors); fad (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fad (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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