fashion

1. (countable) A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.Examples: "The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years."countable

2. (uncountable) Popular trends, especially in clothing; the industry that designs clothing and sometimes other related items.Examples: "Check out the latest in fashion."; "He had always been interested in fashion, so he decided to take a sewing class."; "the innocent diversions in fashion"uncountable

3. (countable) A style or manner in which something is done.Examples: "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."; "It shell-shocked the home crowd, who quickly demanded a response, which came midway through the half and in emphatic fashion."; "Ophelia: My lord, he hath importuned me with love in honourable fashion. Lord Polonius: Ay, fashion you may call it; go to, go to."countable

4. (dated) Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding.Examples: "men of fashion"countabledateduncountable