"fashion" Definition

Definitions for the word "fashion" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.; workmanship; execution.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
The prevailing mode or style, especially of dress; custom or conventional usage in respect of dress, behavior, etiquette, etc.; particularly, the mode or style usual among persons of good breeding; as, to dress, dance, sing, ride, etc., in the fashion.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding; as, men of fashion.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
Mode of action; method of conduct; manner; custom; sort; way.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. t.
To form; to give shape or figure to; to mold.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. t.
To fit; to adapt; to accommodate; -- with to.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v. t.
To make according to the rule prescribed by custom.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. t.
To forge or counterfeit.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. n.
1 current popular custom or style, esp. In dress. 2 manner of doing something. v. (often foll. By into) make or form. after (or in) a fashion to some extent, barely acceptably. In (or out of) fashion fashionable (or not fashionable). [latin factio: related to *fact]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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