fashion

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The prevailing style or custom, as in dress or behavior: out of fashion.
2. n. Something, such as a garment, that is in the current mode: a swimsuit that is the latest fashion.
3. n. The style characteristic of the social elite: a man of fashion.
4. n. Manner or mode; way: Set the table in this fashion.
5. n. A personal, often idiosyncratic manner: played the violin in his own curious fashion.
6. n. Kind or variety; sort: people of all fashions.
7. n. Shape or form; configuration.
8. v. To give shape or form to; make: fashioned a table from a redwood burl.
9. v. To train or influence into a particular state or character.
10. v. To adapt, as to a purpose or an occasion; accommodate.
11. v. Obsolete To contrive.
12. idiom. after In some way or other, especially to a limited extent: She sings after a fashion.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The make or form of anything; the state of anything with regard to its external appearance or constitution; shape: as, the fashion of the ark, or of the tabernacle.
2. n. Customary make or style in dress, ornament, furnishings, or anything subject to variations of taste or established usage; specifically, that mode or style of dress and personal adornment prevalent at any time in polished or genteel society: as, the latest fashions; what so changeable as fashion?
3. n. Manner; way; mode.
4. n. [In this sense used with a specific adjective or noun to form a phrase or a compound noun in adverbial construction: as, to ride man-fashion; to speak American fashion.]
5. n. Custom; prevailing practice.
6. n. Conformity to the ways of fashionable society; good breeding; gentility; good style.
7. n. Lady T. Lud, Sir Peter! would you have me be out of the fashion?
8. n. Fashionable people collectively: as, the beauty and fashion of the town were present.
9. n. Manner, Practice, etc. See custom.
10. n. Conventionality, style.
11. To form; give shape or figure to; mold: as, to fashion toys.
12. To fit; adapt; accommodate.
13. To frame; invent; contrive.
14. n. Same as farcy: usually in the plural.

Wiktionary

1. n. countable A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.
2. n. countable A style, or manner, in which to do something.
3. n. uncountable Popular trends.
4. v. To make, build or construct.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; ; workmanship; execution.
2. n. The prevailing mode or style, especially of dress; custom or conventional usage in respect of dress, behavior, etiquette, etc.; particularly, the mode or style usual among persons of good breeding.
3. n. Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding.
4. n. Mode of action; method of conduct; manner; custom; sort; way.
5. v. To form; to give shape or figure to; to mold.
6. v. To fit; to adapt; to accommodate; -- with to.
7. v. To make according to the rule prescribed by custom.
8. v. obsolete To forge or counterfeit.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. make out of components (often in an improvising manner)
2. n. how something is done or how it happens
3. n. the latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior
4. n. consumer goods (especially clothing) in the current mode
5. n. characteristic or habitual practice