fashionとは

語源

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 factiō (“a making”), from faciō (“do, make”); see fact. Doublet of faction.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈfæʃən/
• 韻: -æʃən

名詞

fashion (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 fashions)

1. (countable) A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess‎^[1]:

     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.

2. (uncountable) Popular trends.

   Check out the latest in fashion.

   • John Locke

     the innocent diversions in fashion

   • H. Spencer

     As now existing, fashion is a form of social regulation analogous to constitutional government as a form of political regulation.

3. (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.

   • 2011 October 1, Phil Dawkes, “Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport‎^[2]:

     It shell-shocked the home crowd, who quickly demanded a response, which came midway through the half and in emphatic fashion.

   • Shakespeare

     OPHELIA - My lord, he hath importuned me with love in honourable fashion. LORD POLONIUS - Ay, fashion you may call it; go to, go to.

4. The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; workmanship; execution.

   the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.

   • Bible, Luke ix. 29

     The fashion of his countenance was altered.

   • Shakespeare

     I do not like the fashion of your garments.

5. (dated) Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding.

   men of fashion

派生語

関連する語

派生した語

• Bislama: fasin
• → Bengali: ফ্যাশন (pphaśôn)
• → Burmese: ဖက်ရှင် (hpakhrang)
• → Hindi: फ़ैशन (faiśan)
• → Japanese: ファッション (fasshon)
• → Korean: 패션 (paesyeon)
• → Malay: fesyen
  • Indonesian: fesyen
• → Scottish Gaelic: fasan (perhaps)
• → Sotho: feshene
• → Spanish: fashion
• → Thai: แฟชั่น (fɛɛ-chân)
• → Urdu: فیشن‎ (faiśan)
• → Welsh: ffasiwn

動詞

fashion (三人称単数 現在形 fashions, 現在分詞 fashioning, 過去形および過去分詞形 fashioned)

1. 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.

2. (dated) To make in a standard manner; to work.
   • John Locke

     Fashioned plate sells for more than its weight.

3. (dated) To fit, adapt, or accommodate to.
   • Spenser

     Laws ought to be fashioned to the manners and conditions of the people.

4. (obsolete) To forge or counterfeit.
   • Shakespeare

     Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit; All with me's meet that I can fashion feet.

派生語

• disfashion
• misfashion
• newfashion
• refashion
• fashioning needle
• unfashioned

Further reading

• fashion in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• fashion in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911