transcription, транскрипция: [ fæʃ(ə)n ]
( fashions, fashioning, fashioned)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
Fashion is the area of activity that involves styles of clothing and appearance.
There are 20 full-colour pages of fashion for men...
The fashion world does not mind what the real world thinks.
N-UNCOUNT
2.
A fashion is a style of clothing or a way of behaving that is popular at a particular time.
Queen Mary started the fashion for blue and white china in England...
He stayed at the top through all changes and fashions in pop music.
N-COUNT : oft the N
3.
If you do something in a particular fashion or after a particular fashion , you do it in that way.
There is another drug called DHE that works in a similar fashion...
It is happening in this fashion because of the obstinacy of one woman.
= manner
N-SING : with supp
see also parrot-fashion
4.
If you fashion an object or a work of art, you make it. ( FORMAL )
Stone Age settlers fashioned necklaces from sheep’s teeth.
VERB : V n
5.
see also old-fashioned
6.
If you say that something was done after a fashion , you mean that it was done, but not very well.
She was educated–after a fashion–at home...
He knew the way, after a fashion.
PHRASE
7.
If something is in fashion , it is popular and approved of at a particular time. If it is out of fashion , it is not popular or approved of.
That sort of house is back in fashion...
Marriage seems to be going out of fashion.
PHRASE