fashion Definition

fashion
noun

1. Style, especially the latest style, in clothes, music, lifetyle, etc, particularly that which prevails among those whose lead is accepted.
2. A currently popular style or practice; a trend.

Thesaurus: fad, craze, rage, vogue, trend, mode.
3. A manner of doing something.

Example: in a dramatic fashion
4. The way something is made or constructed.
5. Sort, type or kind.
6. dated
High society. Also as adj.
Example: fashion house
Example: fashion victim

verb fashioned, fashioning

1. To form or make something into a particular shape, especially with the hands.
2. To mould or influence something.

Thesaurus: make, create, design, shape, mould, manufacture, form, construct, tailor, forge, fit.

Derivative: fashioner
noun

Idiom: after a fashion

In a rather clumsy or inexpert way.

Idiom: do something as if it were going out of fashion

colloq
To do it with great vigour and enthusiasm as though for the last time.

Idiom: in fashion

Currently fashionable.

Idiom: out of fashion

No longer fashionable; passé.

Etymology: 14c: from French fachon, from Latin factio, from facere to make.