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fashion
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)
- (countable) A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.
- (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.
- (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.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter V
- 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.
- (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)
- 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.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IX
- (dated) To make in a standard manner; to work.
- Fashioned plate sells for more than its weight.
- (dated) To fit, adapt, or accommodate to.
- Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people.
- (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)
- (slang) fashionable, trendy
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English fashion. Doublet of facción.
Adjective
fashion (invariable)
- fashionable, trendy
Derived terms
Noun
fashion m (plural fashions or fashion)
- fashion
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description
English
Etymology
From Old French description, from Latin d?scr?pti?, noun of action of d?scr?b? (“I describe”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??sk??p??n/
Noun
description (countable and uncountable, plural descriptions)
- A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.
- The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
- A set of characteristics by which someone or something can be recognized.
- The zoo had no lions, tigers, or cats of any description.
- (taxonomy) A scientific documentation of a taxon for the purpose of introducing it to science.
- The type description of the fungus was written by a botanist.
- (linguistics) The act or practice of recording and describing actual language usage in a given speech community, as opposed to prescription, i.e. laying down norms of language usage.
- (linguistics) A descriptive linguistic survey.
Synonyms
- (characteristics): sort, kind, type, variety
Derived terms
Related terms
- describe
- descriptive
Translations
See also
- prescription
- descriptivism
Further reading
- description in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- description in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
See also
- synopsis
- interpretation
Anagrams
- discerption, predictions
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin d?scripti?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?s.k?ip.sj??/
- Homophone: descriptions
Noun
description f (plural descriptions)
- description
Related terms
- décrire
- descriptif
Further reading
- “description” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old French
Etymology
From Latin d?scripti?.
Noun
description f (oblique plural descriptions, nominative singular description, nominative plural descriptions)
- description
Related terms
- descrivre
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