fashion

Meanings

Noun

• A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.
• Popular trends.
• A style or manner in which something is done.
• The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; workmanship; execution.
• Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding.

Verb

• To make, build or construct, especially in a crude or improvised way.
• To make in a standard manner; to work.
• To fit, adapt, or accommodate to.
• To forge or counterfeit.

Origin

• From Middle English facioun, from Anglo-Norman fechoun (compare Jersey Norman faichon), variant of Old French faceon, fazon, façon, from Latin factiō, from faciō; see fact. faction.