Fashion vs Popular - What's the difference?
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(countable) A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
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* John Locke
* H. Spencer
(countable) A style or manner in which something is done.
* 1918 , Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter V
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The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; workmanship; execution.
* Bible, Luke ix. 29
* Shakespeare
(dated) Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding.
To make, build or construct.
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IX
* 2005 , :
(dated) To make in a standard manner; to work.
* John Locke
(dated) To fit, adapt, or accommodate to .
* Spenser
(obsolete) To forge or counterfeit.
Common among the general public; generally accepted.
* 2007 , Joe Queenan, The Guardian , 23 Aug 2007:
(legal) Concerning the people; public.
Pertaining to or deriving from the people or general public.
* 1594 , (Richard Hooker), Preface :
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 645:
* 2009 , Graham Smith, The Guardian , letter, 27 May 2009:
(obsolete) Of low birth, not noble; vulgar, plebian.
*, II.17:
*:Popular and shallow-headed mindes, cannot perceive the grace or comelinesse, nor judge of a smooth and quaint discourse.
Aimed at ordinary people, as opposed to specialists etc.; intended for general consumption.
* 2009 , ‘Meltdown’, The Economist , 8 Apr 2009:
(obsolete) Cultivating the favour of the common people.
* Such popular humanity is treason. -
Liked by many people; generally pleasing, widely admired.
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As a noun fashion
is (countable) a current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.As a verb fashion
is to make, build or construct.As an adjective popular is
popular.fashion
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(wikipedia fashion)citation, passage=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.}}
- the innocent diversions in fashion
- As now existing, fashion is a form of social regulation analogous to constitutional government as a form of political regulation.
- 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.
citation, page= , passage=It shell-shocked the home crowd, who quickly demanded a response, which came midway through the half and in emphatic fashion .}}
- the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.
- The fashion of his countenance was altered.
- I do not like the fashion of your garments.
- men of fashion
Derived terms
* fashionable * fashionably * fashion collection * fashion designer * fashionless * fashion model * fashion plate * fashion police * fashion show * fashion victim * fashion week * in fashion * like it's going out of fashionVerb
(en verb)- 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.
- a device fashioned by arguments against that kind of prey.
- Fashioned plate sells for more than its weight.
- Laws ought to be fashioned to the manners and conditions of the people.
- (Shakespeare)
Derived terms
* refashionExternal links
* *popular
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(wikipedia popular)Adjective
(en adjective)- Contrary to popular misconception, MacArthur Park is not the worst song ever written.
- At the coming of Calvin thither, the form of their civil regiment was popular , as it continueth at this day: neither king, nor duke, nor nobleman of any authority or power over them, but officers chosen by the people out of themselves, to order all things with public consent.
- Luther in popular memory had become a saint, his picture capable of saving houses from burning down, if it was fixed to the parlour wall.
- Jonathan Freedland brilliantly articulates the size and nature of the challenge and we must take his lead in setting out a radical agenda for a new republic based on the principle of popular sovereignty.
- As a work of popular science it is exemplary: the focus may be the numbers, but most of the mathematical legwork is confined to the appendices and the accompanying commentary is amusing and witty, as well as informed.
Internal Combustion, passage=The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.}}
- They might have split 24 years ago, but the Smiths remain as popular as ever, and not just among those who remember them first time around.
Athletics and Herbal Supplements, passage=Athletes' use of herbal supplements has skyrocketed in the past two decades. At the top of the list of popular herbs are echinacea and ginseng, whereas garlic, St. John's wort, soybean, ephedra and others are also surging in popularity or have been historically prevalent.}}