fashionnoun
uk/ˈfæʃ.ən/us/ˈfæʃ.ən/fashion noun (POPULAR STYLE)
A2 [ C or U ] a style that is popular at a particular time, especially in clothes, hair, make-up, etc.:
Long hair is back in fashion for men.
Fur coats have gone out of fashion.
a programme with features on sport and fashion
She always wears the latest fashions.
follow (a) fashion
to do what is popular at the time
like it's going out of fashion informal
If you use something like it's going out of fashion, you use large amounts of it very quickly:
Emma spends money like it's going out of fashion.
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- We did a fashion shoot on the beach, with the girls modelling swimwear.
- Whatever the latest fashion trend, you can be sure Nicki will be wearing it.
- There's a double-page spread on the latest fashions.
- Our fashion editor gives you the lowdown on winter coats for this season.
- They made their money in the fashion business.
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Fashion
- clothes horse
- collection
- come
- couture
- cover girl
- designer
- fashion statement
- haute couture
- high street
- look
- mannequin
- milliner
- model
- modelling
- style
- supermodel
- swag
- the fashion police
- trend
- vogue
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You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:
Custom, tradition & conformity
Large in number or quantity
Hurrying and doing things quickly
fashion noun (MANNER)
[ S ] a way of doing things:
The rebel army behaved in a brutal fashion.
after a fashion
mainly UK If you can do something after a fashion, you can do it, but not well:
I can cook, after a fashion.
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- During the bomb scare, the customers were asked to proceed in an orderly fashion out of the shop.
- He gets on with things in his own peculiar fashion.
- Charles picked at his food in a bored fashion.
- The developers dealt with the problem in the time-honoured fashion, burying the industrial waste in landfill sites.
- Paul, in typically rude fashion, told him he was talking rubbish.
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Ways of achieving things
- a means to an end idiom
- actively
- another
- avenue
- basis
- channel
- fair
- jump
- mean
- medium
- modality
- modus operandi
- one way or another idiom
- one-handed
- open sesame
- resort
- shortcut
- vein
- whereby
- workings
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fashionverb [ T ]
uk/ˈfæʃ.ən/us/ˈfæʃ.ən/formalto make something using your hands:
He fashioned a hat for himself from/out of newspaper.
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Creating and producing
- bear fruit idiom
- bring
- bring sth out
- churn sth out
- cobble
- craft
- on the go idiom
- overproduce
- patch
- patch sth together
- phase
- phase sth in
- pump
- raise
- rush
- turn sth out
- uncreative
- unleash
- unproductive
- wrought
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