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{ "term": "fashion", "partOfSpeech": "noun", "ox3000": true, "cefr": "a2", "definitions": [ { "senseNumber": 1, "definition": "a popular style of clothes, hair, etc. at a particular time or place; the state of being popular", "sensetop": "in fashion", "labels": "(North American English also)", "cefr": "a2", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "the latest fashion trends" }, { "text": "the new season’s fashions" }, { "text": "Jeans are always in fashion.", "contextForm": "in fashion" }, { "text": "Long skirts have **come into fashion** again." }, { "text": "Some styles never **go out of fashion**." }, { "text": "Black is always in fashion." }, { "text": "He set a fashion for large hats." }, { "text": "I need your expert fashion advice." }, { "text": "I've given up trying to keep up with the latest fashions." }, { "text": "I've started my own fashion line." }, { "text": "She always wore the latest fashions." }, { "text": "She had no fashion sense whatsoever." }, { "text": "She loves fashion and make-up." }, { "text": "She started her career as a fashion model." }, { "text": "She was respected as a fashion icon." }, { "text": "She wore a powdered wig, as was the fashion of the day." }, { "text": "Somebody call the fashion police, please!" }, { "text": "The new summer fashions have arrived." }, { "text": "The store sells everything from casual clothes to high fashion." }, { "text": "What were your worst fashion disasters?" }, { "text": "When did flares first come into fashion?" }, { "text": "a magazine fashion spread" }, { "text": "a passion for French fashions and goods" }, { "text": "classic fashions for your wardrobe" }, { "text": "photographers at fashion shoots" }, { "text": "the fashion for long dresses" }, { "text": "the influence of Italian designer fashion on the clothes industry" }, { "text": "the latest fashion trend" }, { "text": "the popular fashions of the day" }, { "text": "The stores are full of the spring fashions." }, { "text": "Our products interpret the latest fashion and styles in an Australian way." } ], "topics": ["Clothes and Fashion"], "collocations": { "adjective": ["contemporary", "current", "latest"], "verb + fashion": ["be", "be in", "become"], "fashion + verb": ["change"], "fashion + noun": ["statement", "trend", "model"], "preposition": ["after the fashion of", "fashion for", "fashion in"], "phrases": [ "changes in fashion", "the fashion of the day", "the height of fashion" ] } }, { "senseNumber": 2, "definition": "the business of making or selling clothes in new and different styles", "cefr": "a2", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "They all want to work in fashion." }, { "text": "household names in the world of fashion and design" }, { "text": "a **fashion magazine**" }, { "text": "the **fashion industry**" }, { "text": "the fashion runways of Italy and France" }, { "text": "the world's top fashion experts" }, { "text": "one of the most successful fashion houses in Milan" }, { "text": "fresh interest in the New York fashion scene" }, { "text": "Paris, the world's fashion capital" }, { "text": "Her summer collection took the fashion world by storm." } ], "topics": ["Clothes and Fashion"], "collocations": { "adjective": ["contemporary", "current", "latest"], "verb + fashion": ["be", "be in", "become"], "fashion + verb": ["change"], "fashion + noun": ["statement", "trend", "model"], "preposition": ["after the fashion of", "fashion for", "fashion in"], "phrases": [ "changes in fashion", "the fashion of the day", "the height of fashion" ] } }, { "senseNumber": 3, "definition": "a popular way of behaving, doing an activity, etc.", "sensetop": "fashion in somethingfashion for somethingfashion for doing something", "cefr": "b1", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "This theory, though recent, is more than a passing fashion." }, { "text": "Fashions in art and literature come and go.", "contextForm": "fashion in something" }, { "text": "He seemed to endorse the current fashion for neoliberal economics.", "contextForm": "fashion for something" }, { "text": "The fashion at the time was for teaching mainly the written language.", "contextForm": "fashion for doing something" }, { "text": "changing fashions in education" }, { "text": "The palazzo represents the height of architectural fashion for the mid-17th century." }, { "text": "The book traces how fashions have changed over the years." }, { "text": "Pessimism has become the fashion." }, { "text": "Careful spending has gone out of fashion in our consumer society." } ], "collocations": { "adjective": ["true…", "normal", "standard"], "verb + fashion": ["act in", "behave in", "proceed in"], "preposition": ["after a fashion", "in a fashion"] } }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "to some extent, but not very well", "examples": [ { "text": "I can play the piano, after a fashion." }, { "text": "‘Do you speak French?’ ‘After a fashion.’" }, { "text": "So they became friends, after a fashion." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "in the style of somebody/something", "labels": "(formal)", "examples": [ { "text": "The new library is very much after the fashion of Nash." }, { "text": "She spoke in French after the fashion of the court." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "in a particular way", "labels": "(formal)", "examples": [ { "text": "How could they behave in such a fashion?" }, { "text": "I strive to get my work done in a timely fashion." }, { "text": "The troops embarked in an orderly fashion." }, { "text": "Each chapter is structured in a similar fashion." }, { "text": "She was proved right, in dramatic fashion, when the whole department resigned." }, { "text": "Address me in a proper fashion." }, { "text": "Application for the course can be made in the normal fashion." }, { "text": "Costs and revenues are assumed to behave in a linear fashion." }, { "text": "He asked questions in a direct fashion" }, { "text": "He delivered his speech in classic fashion." }, { "text": "He has a small vocabulary and is only able to express himself in a limited fashion." }, { "text": "He insisted the meeting be held, in true spy novel fashion, in the open air." }, { "text": "He presents it in an entertaining fashion." }, { "text": "Karpov struck back in no uncertain fashion to win the seventh game." }, { "text": "Light and sound are recorded in such different fashions." }, { "text": "Please proceed in an orderly fashion to the promenade deck." }, { "text": "She laid out her argument in a convincing fashion." }, { "text": "She was strolling in a leisurely fashion in the opposite direction." }, { "text": "She writes in a serious fashion about the future" }, { "text": "She has corrected that oversight in fine fashion." }, { "text": "The convention proceeded in the normal fashion." }, { "text": "The descent of the footpath starts in easy fashion." }, { "text": "The story moves in circular fashion." }, { "text": "They act in a purposeful and deliberate fashion." }, { "text": "They celebrated their win in traditional fashion by spraying champagne everywhere." }, { "text": "We had just gone out when, in typical fashion, the rain came down." }, { "text": "We need to tackle this problem in a coordinated fashion." }, { "text": "Why are they behaving in such a ridiculous fashion?" }, { "text": "batons ready in best police fashion" }, { "text": "slowly descending the stairs in a grand fashion" }, { "text": "when people confront you in a negative fashion" }, { "text": "I remembered clearly the peculiar fashion in which it all happened." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "used to emphasize that somebody is doing something or using something a lot", "labels": "(informal)", "examples": [ { "text": "She's been spending money like it's going out of fashion." } ] } ], "pronunciations": { "uk": [ { "pronunciation": "/ˈfæʃn/", "audio": "fa/fashion/fashion__gb_1.mp3" } ], "us": [ { "pronunciation": "/ˈfæʃn/", "audio": "fa/fashion/fashion__us_2.mp3" } ] }, "wordOrigin": "Middle English (in the sense ‘make, shape, appearance’, also ‘a particular make or style’): from Old French façon, from Latin factio(n-), from facere ‘do, make’." }