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Fashionable vs Belgravian - What's the difference?

fashionable | belgravian |

As adjectives the difference between fashionable and belgravian

is that fashionable is characteristic of or influenced by a current popular trend or style while belgravian is of or pertaining to belgravia, london.

As nouns the difference between fashionable and belgravian

is that fashionable is a person; a fop while belgravian is a resident of belgravia, london; by extension a member of the fashionable or aristocratic society assumed to reside in belgravia.

fashionable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Characteristic of or influenced by a current popular trend or style.
    • a fashionable''' dress; a '''fashionable man
  • Established or favoured by custom or use; current; prevailing at a particular time.
    • the fashionable''' philosophy; '''fashionable opinions
  • (archaic) genteel; well-bred
    • fashionable society
  • * Shakespeare
    • Time is like a fashionable host / That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand.

    Synonyms

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person; a fop
  • * {{quote-book, year=1860, author=Various, title=Atlantic Monthly, Vol. VI.,October, 1860.--No. XXXVI., chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=We speculated upon the astonishment that would have seized upon their simple, innocent hearts, had they beheld, instead of us, a bevy of our city fashionables in full bloom. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1891, author=Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), title=What Is Man? and Other Essays, chapter=At the Shrine of St. Wagner, edition= citation
    • , passage=In large measure the Metropolitan is a show-case for rich fashionables who are not trained in Wagnerian music and have no reverence for it, but who like to promote art and show their clothes. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=1991, date=September 20, author=George Grass, title=Star Show, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=A few, perhaps, have a further purpose; they desire to assist in that circus, to show themselves in the capacity of fashionables , to enchant the yokelry with their splendor. }}

    belgravian

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to Belgravia, London.
  • (idiomatic) Of or pertaining to the fashionable or aristocratic life; fashionable, aristocratic.
  • * 1909 , The Athenæum: A Journal of Literature, Science, The Fine Arts, Music, and The Drama , page 434,
    • Many of the social figures in England, male and female, especially a very Belgravian mother, Lady Clarice, are deftly drawn ; but the coloured desperado, who fails in his attack on his brother, is a little crude.
  • * 1929 , , Volume 176, page 258,

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A resident of Belgravia, London; by extension a member of the fashionable or aristocratic society assumed to reside in Belgravia.
  • * 1862 , London, and its Forms of Social Life'', in ''The Boston Review , Volume 2, page 102,
    • The haughty Belgravians , the aristocracy of rank, are greatly shocked at the bad manners of the aristocracy of wealth, the Barings and Rothschilds of the city, and earnestly entreat all "respectable" strangers at Prince Albert's fair to bear it ever in mind that London City is not London Town!