fashun

Noun

fashion (countable and uncountable, plural fashions)

1. (countable) A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.
   • 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...1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
2. (uncountable) Popular trends, especially in clothing; the industry that designs clothing and sometimes other related items.
   • Check out the latest in fashion.
3. (countable) A style or manner in which something is done.
   • the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.
4. The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; workmanship; execution.
   • I do not like the fashion of your garments.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
5. (dated) Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding.
   • men of fashion

See all 9 meanings of fashion