Fashion vs. Modern

Fashion vs. Modern — Is There a Difference?

Difference Between Fashion and Modern

Fashionnoun

The prevailing style or custom, as in dress or behavior

out of fashion.

Modernadjective

Of or relating to recent times or the present

modern history.

Fashionnoun

Something, such as a garment, that is in the current mode

a swimsuit that is the latest fashion.

Modernadjective

Characteristic or expressive of recent times or the present; contemporary or up-to-date

a modern lifestyle.a modern way of thinking.

Fashionnoun

Manner or mode; way

Set the table in this fashion.

Modernadjective

Of or relating to a recently developed or advanced style, technique, or technology

modern art.modern medicine.

Fashionnoun

A personal, often idiosyncratic manner

played the violin in his own curious fashion.

Modernadjective

Avant-garde; experimental.

Fashionnoun

Kind or variety; sort

people of all fashions.

Modernadjective

often Modern(Linguistics) Of, relating to, or being a living language or group of languages

Modern Italian.Modern Romance languages.

Fashionnoun

Shape or form; configuration

a garden triangular in fashion.

Modernnoun

One who lives in modern times.

Fashionverb

To give shape or form to; make

fashioned a table from a redwood burl.

Modernnoun

One who has modern ideas, standards, or beliefs.

Fashionverb

To train or influence into a particular state or character

The teacher fashions her students into fine singers.

Modernnoun

(Printing) Any of a variety of typefaces characterized by strongly contrasted heavy and thin parts.

Fashionverb

(Archaic) To adapt, as to a purpose or an occasion.

Modernadjective

Pertaining to a current or recent time and style; not ancient.

Our online interactive game is a modern approach to teaching about gum disease.Although it was built in the 1600s, the building still has a very modern look.

Fashionverb

(Obsolete) To contrive.

Modernadjective

(history) Pertaining to the modern period (c.1800 to contemporary times), particularly in academic historiography.

Fashionnoun

(countable) A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.

Modernnoun

Someone who lives in modern times.

Fashionnoun

(uncountable) Popular trends.

Check out the latest in fashion.

Modernnoun

a contemporary person

Fashionnoun

(countable) A style or manner in which something is done.

Modernnoun

a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes

Fashionnoun

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.

Modernadjective

belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages;

modern artmodern furnituremodern historytotem poles are modern rather than prehistoric

Fashionnoun

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

men of fashion

Modernadjective

relating to a recently developed fashion or style;

their offices are in a modern skyscrapertables in modernistic designs

Fashionverb

To make, build or construct, especially in a crude or improvised way.

Modernadjective

characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture

Fashionverb

(dated) To make in a standard manner; to work.

Modernadjective

ahead of the times;

the advanced teaching methodshad advanced views on the subjecta forward-looking corporationis British industry innovative enough?

Fashionverb

(dated) To fit, adapt, or accommodate to.

Modernadjective

used of a living language; being the current stage in its development;

Modern EnglishNew Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew

Fashionverb

(obsolete) To forge or counterfeit.

Fashionnoun

how something is done or how it happens;

her dignified mannerhis rapid manner of talkingtheir nomadic mode of existencein the characteristic New York stylea lonely way of lifein an abrasive fashion

Fashionnoun

characteristic or habitual practice

Fashionnoun

the latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior

Fashionverb

make out of components (often in an improvising manner);

She fashioned a tent out of a sheet and a few sticks