fashion

fashion

noun

Definition of FASHION

1

a practice or interest that is very popular for a short time <during the 1990s tattoos once again became a hot fashion especially for young men>

Synonyms buzz, chic, craze, dernier cri, enthusiasm, fashion, flavor, go, hot ticket, last word, latest, mode, rage, sensation, style, ton, trend, vogue

Related Words nine days' wonder (also nine day wonder); new wave; crush, infatuation; fervor, passion; furor, fuss, hullabaloo, to-do, uproar; bandwagon, crusade, cult, movement; novelty, wrinkle; caprice, fancy, whim

Near Antonyms classic, standard

2

a distinctive way of putting ideas into words <when angry, he tends to express himself in a fashion that shows that he has a mastery of all of the expletives in which the English language abounds>

Synonyms fashion, locution, manner, mode, phraseology, tone, vein

Related Words address, delivery, elocution; archaism, colloquialism, regionalism; acceptation, connotation, denotation, expression, idiom

3

a usual manner of behaving or doing <it has long been my fashion to rise early>

Synonyms custom, fashion, habitude, pattern, practice (also practise), ritual, second nature, trick, way, wont

Related Words addiction; disposition; bent, inclination, proclivity, set, tendency, tenor, turn; bag, convention, form, mode, style; usage, use; deportment, manners, mores; drill, groove, jog trot, regime (also r{eacute}gime), regimen, rote, routine, rut; affectation, airs, pose; attribute, characteristic, mark, trait; eccentricity, kink, oddity, peculiarity, quirk, singularity, tic

4

the means or procedure for doing something <you can mix the ingredients in any fashion you choose—by hand or by machine>

Synonyms approach, fashion, form, how, manner, methodology, recipe, strategy, style, system, tack, tactics, technique, way

Related Words mode, modus operandi; blueprint, design, game, game plan, ground plan, intrigue, layout, line, model, plan, plot, program, route, scheme; expedient, move, shift, step; practice (also practise), process, routine; policy

5

high position within society <a literary salon attended by people of fashion from all over the city>

Synonyms class, dignity, fashion, quality, standing, state

Related Words gentility, gentleness, nobility, nobleness; grandness, highness, loftiness; distinction, dominance, precedence, preeminence, primacy, superiority; caste, station, status; preferment

Near Antonyms debasement, degradation; subordinateness, subordination; baseness, commonness, inferiority, lowliness, lowness

6

the outward appearance of something as distinguished from its substance <over the millennia, nature had worked the face of the rocky cliff into the fashion of a man's head>

Synonyms cast, configuration, conformation, fashion, figure, geometry, shape

Related Words contour, outline, profile, silhouette; frame, framework, shell, skeleton; arrangement, design, format, layout, makeup, organization, pattern, plan, setup

Near Antonyms composition, material, matter, raw material, stuff, substance