different between fashion vs admiration

English

Alternative forms

• fascion (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English facioun, from Anglo-Norman fechoun (compare Jersey Norman faichon), variant of Old French faceon, fazon, façon (“fashion, form, make, outward appearance”), from Latin facti? (“a making”), from faci? (“do, make”); see fact. Doublet of faction.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fæ??n/
• Rhymes: -æ??n

Noun

fashion (countable and uncountable, plural fashions)

1. (countable) A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.
2. (uncountable) Popular trends.

   • the innocent diversions in fashion

   • 1879, Herbert Spencer, Principles of Sociology Part IV

     As now existing, fashion is a form of social regulation analogous to constitutional government as a form of political regulation.

3. (countable) A style or manner in which something is done.
   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter V

     When it had advanced from the wood, it hopped much after the fashion of a kangaroo, using its hind feet and tail to propel it, and when it stood erect, it sat upon its tail.
4. The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; workmanship; execution.

   • The fashion of his countenance was altered.
5. (dated) Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• Bislama: fasin
• ? Bengali: ?????? (ppha?ôn)
• ? Burmese: ??????? (hpakhrang)
• ? Hindi: ????? (fai?an)
• ? Irish: faisean
• ? Japanese: ?????? (fasshon)
• ? Korean: ?? (paesyeon)
• ? Malay: fesyen
  • Indonesian: fesyen
• ? Portuguese: fashion
• ? Scottish Gaelic: fasan (perhaps)
• ? Sotho: feshene
• ? Spanish: fashion
• ? Thai: ?????? (f??-chân)
• ? Urdu: ????? (fai?an)
• ? Welsh: ffasiwn

Translations

Verb

fashion (third-person singular simple present fashions, present participle fashioning, simple past and past participle fashioned)

1. To make, build or construct, especially in a crude or improvised way.
   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IX

     I have three gourds which I fill with water and take back to my cave against the long nights. I have fashioned a spear and a bow and arrow, that I may conserve my ammunition, which is running low.

   • 2005, Plato, Sophist, translation by Lesley Brown, 235b:

     […] a device fashioned by arguments against that kind of prey.

2. (dated) To make in a standard manner; to work.

   • Fashioned plate sells for more than its weight.

3. (dated) To fit, adapt, or accommodate to.

   • Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people.

4. (obsolete) To forge or counterfeit.

Derived terms

• disfashion
• misfashion
• newfashion
• refashion
• fashioning needle
• unfashioned

Translations

Further reading

• fashion in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• fashion in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English fashion. Doublet of facção and feição.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?.?õ/

Adjective

fashion (invariable, comparable)

1. (slang) fashionable, trendy

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English fashion. Doublet of facción.

Adjective

fashion (invariable)

1. fashionable, trendy

Derived terms

Noun

fashion m (plural fashions or fashion)

1. fashion

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French admiration, or directly from Latin adm?r?ti?, from prefix ad- (“to, towards”) + m?r? (“I look at”) + -?ti?. Compare the verb admire, and US dialectal terms miration and mirate.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?æd.m??e??.?n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

admiration (countable and uncountable, plural admirations)

1. A positive emotion including wonder and approbation; the regarding of another as being wonderful
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Dublin: John Smith, Volume 2, Book 7, Chapter 1, pp. 4-5,^[1]

     For in this Instance, Life most exactly resembles the Stage, since it is often the same Person who represents the Villain and the Heroe; and he who engages your Admiration To-day, will probably attract your Contempt To-Morrow.

   • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Volume 1, Chapter 6,^[2]

     A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

   • 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days, New York: Harcout Brace Jovanovich, 1974, Chapter 3, p. 40,^[3]

     Dr. Veraswami had a passionate admiration for the English, which a thousand snubs from Englishmen had not shaken.

   • 1939, John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath, Penguin, 1951, Chapter 19, p. 257,^[4]

     […] in the towns, the storekeepers hated them because they had no money to spend. There is no shorter path to a storekeeper’s contempt, and all his admirations are exactly opposite. The town men, little bankers, hated Okies because there was nothing to gain from them.

2. (obsolete) Wondering or questioning (without any particular positive or negative attitude to the subject).
   • c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act I, Scene 4,^[5]

     Lear. Your name, fair gentlewoman?

     Goneril. This admiration, sir, is much o’ th’ savour

     Of other your new pranks.

   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Revelation 17:6,^[6]

     And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.

   • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 3, lines 270-272,^[7]

     […] Admiration seized

     All Heaven, what this might mean, and whither tend,

     Wondering;

3. (obsolete) Cause of admiration; something to excite wonder, or pleased surprise.
   • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well, Act II, Scene 1,^[8]

     Now, good Lafeu,

     Bring in the admiration; that we with thee

     May spend our wonder too, or take off thine

     By wondering how thou took’st it.

Synonyms

• (positive emotion including wonder and approbation): approval, appreciation, adoration, reverence, wonder, worship

Derived terms

• see admire

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin admiratio, admirationem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ad.mi.?a.sj??/

Noun

admiration f (plural admirations)

1. admiration

   Plein d’admiration pour son adversaire, chacun lève sa propre visière : "Elsseneur ! ...", "Réginald ! ..." (Les Chants de Maldoror - Chant V) - Full of admiration for his enemy, ...

Further reading

• “admiration” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Scots

Noun

admiration (plural admirations)

1. admiration

References

• Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online