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/ˈfæʃən/ · noun
(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 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.
Ophelia: My lord, he hath importuned me with love in honourable fashion. Lord Polonius: Ay, fashion you may call it; go to, go to.
When it had advanced from the wood, it hopped much after the fashion of a kangaroo, using its hind feet and tail to propel it, and when it stood erect, it sat upon its tail.
Use fashion when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Fashion means (countable) A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons..
Common synonyms include forge, style, mode, way.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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