- a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.
- conventional usage in dress, manners, etc., especially of polite society, or conformity to it: the dictates of fashion; to be out of fashion.
- manner; way; mode: in a warlike fashion.
- the make or form of anything: He liked the fashion of the simple, sturdy furniture.
- a kind; sort: All fashions of people make up the world.
- workmanship.
- act or process of making.
- to give a particular shape or form to; make: The cavemen fashioned tools from stones.
- to accommodate; adjust; adapt: doctrines fashioned to the varying hour.
- to bend (a plate) without preheating.
- to contrive; manage.
- in some manner or other or to some extent; in a makeshift, unskillful, or unsatisfactory way: He's an artist after a fashion.
- style in clothes, cosmetics, behaviour, etc, esp the latest or most admired style
- (as modifier)
- (esp of accessories) designed to be in the current fashion, but not necessarily to last
- manner of performance; mode; way
- (in combination)
- a way of life that revolves around the activities, dress, interests, etc, that are most fashionable
- shape, appearance, or form
- sort; kind; type
- after a fashion or in a fashion
- in some manner, but not very well
- of a low order; of a sort
- like; similar to
- of high social standing
- to give a particular form to
- to make suitable or fitting
- to contrive; manage
