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The word fashion has to do with customs and trends. Popular clothes are in fashion. And someone who keeps up with the latest styles is a follower of fashion.

The most common use of fashion is to describe the hippest, trendiest clothes and music — we say popular things are in fashion. But this word can also refer to a way something is done, as in "We train dogs in a certain fashion." To fashion something means to built it, as in "We fashioned a shelter out of rocks and mud." But that kind of fashioning probably isn't in fashion these days.

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: fashion

1	n	the latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior
2	n	how something is done or how it happens
3	v	make out of components (often in an improvising manner)
4	n	characteristic or habitual practice

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: fashion

n the latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior

Types:: show 5 types...; hide 5 types...; 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

Type of:: style, trend, vogue
the popular taste at a given time

n consumer goods (especially clothing) in the current mode

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

n how something is done or how it happens

“in an abrasive fashion”

Synonyms:: manner, mode, style, way

Types:: show 23 types...; hide 23 types...; artistic style, idiom
the style of a particular artist or school or movement; drape
the manner in which fabric hangs or falls; fit
the manner in which something fits; form
a particular mode in which something is manifested; life style, life-style, lifestyle, modus vivendi
a manner of living that reflects the person's values and attitudes; setup
the way something is organized or arranged; signature, touch
a distinguishing style; wise
a way of doing or being; response
the manner in which an electrical or mechanical device responds to an input signal or a range of input signals; baroque, baroqueness
elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century; classical style
the artistic style of ancient Greek art with its emphasis on proportion and harmony; order
(architecture) one of original three styles of Greek architecture distinguished by the type of column and entablature used or a style developed from the original three by the Romans; rococo
fanciful but graceful asymmetric ornamentation in art and architecture that originated in France in the 18th century; High Renaissance
the artistic style of early 16th century painting in Florence and Rome; characterized by technical mastery and heroic composition and humanistic content; treatment
a manner of dealing with something artistically; fast lane
a hectic and pressured lifestyle often characterized by recklessness or dissipation; free living
a lifestyle given to easy indulgence of the appetites; vanity fair
a vain and frivolous lifestyle especially in large cities; common touch
the property of appealing to people in general (usually by appearing to have qualities in common with them); hang
the way a garment hangs; neoclassicism
revival of a classical style (in art or literature or architecture or music) but from a new perspective or with a new motivation; classicalism, classicism
a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms; Romantic Movement, Romanticism
a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization

Type of:: property
a basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class

v make out of components (often in an improvising manner)

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

Synonyms:: forge

Types:: show 7 types...; hide 7 types...; tie
make by tying pieces together; craft
make by hand and with much skill; sew, tailor, tailor-make
create (clothes) with cloth; handcraft
make something by hand; run up
make by sewing together quickly; quilt
create by stitching together; filigree
make filigree, as with a precious metal

Type of:: make
make by shaping or bringing together constituents

n characteristic or habitual practice

Types:: line of least resistance, path of least resistance
the easiest way

Type of:: pattern, practice
a customary way of operation or behavior

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