Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Conforming to the current styles or trends; stylish.
- adjective Adopting or setting current styles or trends.
- adjective Associated with or frequented by stylish or trend-setting people.
- noun A stylish person.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being shaped or fashioned.
- Conforming to established fashion, custom, or prevailing practice: as, a fashionable dress or hat; fashionable opinions.
- Observant of the fashion or customary mode; dressing or behaving according to the prevailing fashion; genteel; polished: as, a fashionable man; fashionable society.
- Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of people of fashion: as, fashionable waste.
- Patronized, resorted to, or occupied by people of fashion: as, a fashionable tailor or hatter; a fashionable watering-place or neighborhood.
- noun A person of fashion: chiefly used in the plural: as, this establishment is patronized by the fashionables.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A person who conforms to the fashions; -- used chiefly in the plural.
- adjective Conforming to the fashion or established mode; according with the prevailing form or style.
- adjective Established or favored by custom or use; current; prevailing at a particular time.
- adjective Observant of the fashion or customary mode; dressing or behaving according to the prevailing fashion.
- adjective Genteel; well-bred.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Characteristic of or influenced by a current popular
trend orstyle . - adjective Relating to
fashion . - noun A fashionable person; a
fop
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress
- adjective patronized by
- adjective being or in accordance with current social fashions
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Examples
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I will say one thing farther-certainly more than three-fourths of the disorders in what we call fashionable life arise from the use of this very drug that we call alcohol.
Address Before The Second Biennial Convention Of The World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union 1893
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They compared notes about appendicitis, which they called the fashionable complaint, and Mrs. Taylour suddenly exclaimed:
Lady Betty Across the Water Orson Lowell 1889
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I quite forget, but some paper or other which is full of what they call fashionable intelligence.
A Life's Morning George Gissing 1880
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Still less was she what we call fashionable, for the word was not known; nor was she a woman of society, for, as we have said, there was no society in a feudal castle.
Beacon Lights of History John Lord 1852
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As debate raged around the country about so called "mercy killings" Dr John Sentamu condemned what he described as fashionable opinion on the topic fuelled by celebrities and opinion polls.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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As debate raged around the country about so called "mercy killings" Dr John Sentamu condemned what he described as fashionable opinion on the topic fuelled by celebrities and opinion polls.
Latest news, breaking news, current news, UK news, world news, celebrity news, politics news 2010
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As debate raged around the country about so called "mercy killings" Dr John Sentamu condemned what he described as fashionable opinion on the topic fuelled by celebrities and opinion polls.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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In recent decades, the rich have used their winnings to bid up the prices of artwork and fancy cars, the tuition at prestigious private schools and universities, the services of celebrity hairdressers and interior decorators, and real estate in fashionable enclaves from Park City to Park Avenue.
The costs of rising economic inequality Steven Pearlstein 2010
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In recent decades, the rich have used their winnings to bid up the prices of artwork and fancy cars, the tuition at prestigious private schools and universities, the services of celebrity hairdressers and interior decorators, and real estate in fashionable enclaves from Park City to Park Avenue.
The costs of rising economic inequality Steven Pearlstein 2010
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That literary study would come to such an end was probably inevitable, since the primary imperative of academe -- to create "new" knowledge -- is finally inimical to something so difficult to dress up in fashionable critical clothes as serious works of fiction or poetry.
Satirical 2009
slumry commented on the word fashionable
stylish
July 24, 2007
qroqqa commented on the word fashionable
The dog, Bonne Bouche—she had been christened before Mrs. Hazelton bought her—wore on her head, in the manner of the fashionables among her tribe, a bow of satin ribbon holding back her silvery bangs.
—Dorothy Parker, 'The Bolt behind the Blue'
I've never seen this word used as a noun before.
November 12, 2008