1 [U,C] a popular style of clothes, hair, etc. at a particular time or place; the state of being popular:
dressed in the latest fashion * the new season's fashions * Long skirts have come into fashion again. * Jeans are still in fashion. * Some styles never go out of fashion. * She's a fashion victim (= she always wears the latest fashions).
2 [C] a popular way of behaving, doing an activity, etc:
The fashion at the time was for teaching mainly the written language. * Fashions in art and literature come and go.
3 [U] the business of making or selling clothes in new and different styles:
a fashion designer / magazine / show * the world of fashion * the fashion industry
IDIOMS
after a fashion to some extent, but not very well:
I can play the piano, after a fashion. * 'Do you speak French?' 'After a fashion.'
after the fashion of sb/sth (formal) in the style of sb/sth:
The new library is very much after the fashion of Nash.
in (a)...fashion (formal) in a particular way:
How could they behave in such a fashion? * She was proved right, in dramatic fashion, when the whole department resigned.
like it's going out of fashion (spoken) used to emphasize that sb is doing sth or using sth a lot:
She's been spending money like it's going out of fashion.
seealsoPARROT-FASHION
verb [VN] ~ A (from / out of B)
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for fashion is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is fashion a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, fashion is tagged as noun.
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