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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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regard
English
Alternative forms
- regarde, reguard, reguarde (all obsolete)
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??????d/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??????d/
- Hyphenation: re?gard
- Rhymes: -??(?)d
Etymology 1
From Middle English regard, regarde, reguard, from Anglo-Norman reguard, from regarder, reguarder. Attested in Middle English starting around the mid 14th century. Compare guard, reward, guardian, and so on.
Noun
regard (countable and uncountable, plural regards)
- (countable) A steady look, a gaze. [from 15th c.]
- 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 750:
- He bathed in the memory of her blondness, of her warm blue regard, and the sentiment permeated his sensibility with tenderness made the more rich because its object was someone long since dead.
- 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 750:
- One's concern for another; esteem; relation, reference. [from 16th c.]
- (preceded by “in” or “with”) A particular aspect or detail; respect, sense. [from 16th c.]
- 1842, Treuttel and Würtz, The Foreign Quarterly Review, page 144:
- This attempt will be made with every regard to the difficulty of the undertaking […]
- 1989, Leonard W. Poon, David C. Rubin, Barbara A. Wilson, Everyday Cognition in Adulthood and Late Life, Cambridge University Press, page 399:
- These problems were not traditional problems with realistic stimuli, but rather were realistic in every regard.
- 1842, Treuttel and Würtz, The Foreign Quarterly Review, page 144:
- (uncountable) The worth or estimation in which something or someone is held.
- Synonyms: esteem, repute
- He is held in great regard in Whitehall.
Derived terms
- disregard
- in regard
- in regard of
- in regard to
- with regard to
Synonyms
- consideration, onlook, respect
Antonyms
- (concern for another): neglect
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English regarden, from Old French regarder, reguarder. First attested in late Middle English, circa the early 15th century.
Verb
regard (third-person singular simple present regards, present participle regarding, simple past and past participle regarded)
- To look at; to observe. [from 16th c.]
- (transitive) To consider, look upon (something) in a given way etc. [from 16th c.]
- , [Act V, scene iv]:
- Signior Leonato, truth it is good Signior, / Your neece regards me with an eye of fauour.
- , [Act V, scene iv]:
- (transitive, archaic) To take notice of, pay attention to. [from 16th c.]
- (transitive) To face toward.
- (transitive) To have to do with, to concern. [from 17th c.]
- (transitive, obsolete) To set store by (something), to hold (someone) in esteem; to consider to have value, to respect. [from 16th c.]
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke 18:2:
- Ther was a Iudge in a certayne cite which feared not god nether regarded man.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke 18:2:
Derived terms
- regardable
- regarder
- regardless
- self-regarding
Synonyms
- (to look at): See Thesaurus:look
- (to consider): See Thesaurus:deem
- (to take notice of): See Thesaurus:pay attention
Antonyms
- ignore
- neglect
Translations
Anagrams
- Drager, Gerard, Grader, grader, red rag, redrag
French
Etymology
From Middle French regard, from Old French regard, from reguarder.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.?a?/
Noun
regard m (plural regards)
- look, glance
- (uncountable) sight, gaze, eyes
- 1885, Loreau, Heriette (trans.), L’Ami commun (Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens), Part IV, chapter 10:
- 1885, Loreau, Heriette (trans.), L’Ami commun (Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens), Part IV, chapter 10:
- manhole
Related terms
- regarder
Further reading
- “regard” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- garder, Gérard
Old French
Alternative forms
- regart, resgard, resgart, regarde
Noun
regard m (oblique plural regarz or regartz, nominative singular regarz or regartz, nominative plural regard)
- look; observance; watching (act, instance of looking at)
Descendants
- Middle French: regard
- ? Middle English: regard, regarde
- English: regard
- ? Middle English: regard, regarde
References
- regard on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
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