fashionable

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Adjective

fashionable (comparative more fashionable, superlative most fashionable)

1. Characteristic of or influenced by a current popular trend or style.
2. Relating to fashion.

Translations

characteristic of or influenced by a current popular trend or style

Chinese: Mandarin: 時髦 (zh), 时髦 (zh) (shímáo), 風靡 (zh), 风靡 (zh) (fēngmǐ), 時興 (zh), 时兴 (zh) (shíxīng), 入時 (zh), 入时 (zh) (rùshí), 當令 (zh), 当令 (zh) (dānglìng), 流行 (zh) (liúxíng) French: à la mode (fr), en vogue (fr) German: modisch (de)

Hungarian: divatos (hu) Japanese: はやりの (ja) (hayari-no), 洒落た (ja) (しゃれた, shareta), 流行の (ja) (りゅうこうの, ryūkō-no) Portuguese: moderno (pt) Russian: модный (ru) (módnyj) Scottish Gaelic: nòsach, nòsail, nòsmhor, modhail, fasanta (gd)

relating to fashion

French: à la mode (fr) Portuguese: da moda

Scottish Gaelic: nòsach, nòsail, nòsmhor, modhail, fasanta (gd)

Noun

fashionable (plural fashionables)

1. A fashionable person; a fop
   • 1860, Various, Atlantic Monthly, Vol. VI.,October, 1860.--No. XXXVI.^[1]:

     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.

   • 1891, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), “At the Shrine of St. Wagner”, in What Is Man? and Other Essays^[2]:

     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.

   • 1991 September 20, George Grass, “Star Show”, Chicago Reader:

     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.