fashion

1. 1.

   make out of components (often in an improvising manner)

   “She fashioned a tent out of a sheet and a few sticks”

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   Broadermake

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Other forms of fashion

plural

fashions·

past tense

fashioned·

present participle

fashioning·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fashion

What does fashion mean?

fashion means "how something is done or how it happens". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fashion?

fashion has 2 syllables: fas-hion. The stress falls on "fas". In IPA it is /ˈfæʃən/.

What is another word for fashion?

Close synonyms include manner, mode, style, way, forge. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fashion a common word?

fashion is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.