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fash·ion·a·ble

 (făsh′ə-nə-bəl)
adj.
1.
a. Conforming to the current styles or trends; stylish: a fashionable wardrobe.
b. Adopting or setting current styles or trends: a fashionable artist.
2. Associated with or frequented by stylish or trend-setting people: a fashionable hotel.
n.
A stylish person.

fash′ion·a·bil·i·ty, fash′ion·a·ble·ness n.
fash′ion·a·bly adv.
Synonyms: fashionable, chic, in1, sharp, smart, stylish, swanky, trendy
These adjectives mean in accordance with the current fashion: a fashionable restaurant; a chic dress; the in place to go; a sharp jacket; a smart hotel; stylish clothes; a swanky apartment; a trendy neighborhood.
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fashionable

(ˈfæʃənəbəl)
adj
1. conforming to fashion; in vogue
2. of, characteristic of, or patronized by people of fashion: a fashionable café.
3. (usually foll by with) patronized (by); popular (with)
ˌfashionaˈbility, ˈfashionableness n
ˈfashionably adv
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fash•ion•a•ble

(ˈfæʃ ə nə bəl)

adj.
1. observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish; modish.
2. of, characteristic of, used, or patronized by the world of fashion: a fashionable shop.
3. current; popular.
n.
4. a fashionable person.
[1600–10]
fash′ion•a•ble•ness, fash`ion•a•bil′i•ty, n.
fash′ion•a•bly, adv.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.fashionable - being or in accordance with current social fashions; "fashionable clothing"; "the fashionable side of town"; "a fashionable cafe"
unfashionable, unstylish - not in accord with or not following current fashion; "unfashionable clothes"; "melodrama of a now unfashionable kind"
2.fashionable - having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dressfashionable - having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress; "a little less posh but every bit as stylish as Lord Peter Wimsey"; "the stylish resort of Gstadd"
3.fashionable - patronized by
popular - regarded with great favor, approval, or affection especially by the general public; "a popular tourist attraction"; "a popular girl"; "cabbage patch dolls are no longer popular"
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fashionable

adjective popular, in fashion, trendy (Brit. informal), cool (slang), in (informal), latest, the new, happening (informal), current, modern, with it (informal), usual, smart, hip (slang), prevailing, stylish, chic, up-to-date, customary, genteel, in vogue, all the rage, up-to-the-minute, modish, du jour (French), à la mode, voguish (informal), trendsetting, all the go (informal), culty It became fashionable to eat certain foods.
old-fashioned, dated, unpopular, obsolete, out of date, unfashionable, outmoded, old-hat, uncool (slang), frumpy, behind the times, unhip (slang), unstylish, untrendy (Brit. informal), out of the ark (informal)
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fashionable

adjective
Being or in accordance with the current fashion:
Informal: classy, in, sharp, snappy, swish, tony, trendy.
Slang: with-it.
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Translations
على الطِّراز الحَديثمُطَابِقٌ للمُوضَة
elegantnímodernímódní
moderigtigfin
muodikas
moderan
í samræmi viî nÿjustu tísku, í tísku
流行の
유행의
moden
modern
ทันสมัย
modaya uygunson moda
mốt

fashionable

[ˈfæʃnəbl] ADJ
1. [dress etc] → de moda, moderno, a la moda; [place, restaurant] → de moda
fashionable peoplegente f elegante, gente f guapa
in fashionable societyen la buena sociedad
it is fashionable to doestá de moda hacer ...
2. (= popular) [writer, subject for discussion] → de moda, popular
he is hardly a fashionable painter nowes un pintor que no está ahora muy de moda
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

fashionable

[ˈfæʃənəbəl] adj [clothes] → à la mode; [place, restaurant, hotel] → à la mode
Jane wears very fashionable clothes → Jane porte des vêtements très à la mode.
a fashionable restaurant → un restaurant à la mode
to become fashionable → devenir à la mode
it is fashionable to do ... → c'est la mode de faire ...
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

fashionable

adj clothes, look, personmodisch; restaurant, shop, areaschick; idea, artistzurzeit beliebt; fashionable colour (Brit) or color (US) → Modefarbe f; fashionable writerModeschriftsteller(in) m(f); to become fashionablein Mode kommen, modern werden; it’s fashionable to do thates ist modern or (in) Mode, das zu tun; Michelle is super fashionable (inf)Michelle hat supermoderne Klamotten (inf); the fashionable set or peopledie Schickeria
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fashionable

[ˈfæʃnəbl] adjalla moda, di moda; (writer) → di grido
it is fashionable to do ... → è/va di moda fare...
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

fashion

(ˈfӕʃən) noun
1. the style and design of clothes. Are you interested in fashion?; (also adjective) a fashion magazine.
2. the way of behaving, dressing etc which is popular at a certain time. Fashions in music and art are always changing.
3. a way of doing something. She spoke in a very strange fashion.
ˈfashionable adjective
following, or in keeping with, the newest style of dress, way of living etc. a fashionable woman; a fashionable part of town.
ˈfashionably adverb
after a fashion
in a way, but not very well. She can speak French after a fashion.
all the fashion
very fashionable. Long skirts were all the fashion last year.
in fashion
fashionable. Tweed jackets are in fashion.
out of fashion
not fashionable. Long skirts are out of fashion at present.
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fashionable

مُطَابِقٌ للمُوضَة moderní moderigtig modisch μοδάτος a la moda muodikas à la mode moderan alla moda 流行の 유행의 modieus moderne modny na moda модный modern ทันสมัย modaya uygun mốt 时髦的
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References in classic literature ?
The fashionable intelligence says so for the comfort of the Parisians, and it knows all fashionable things.
As a general practitioner, he might have bought a comfortable business, with a house and snug surgery-shop attached; but the son-in-law of Lady Malkinshaw was obliged to hold up his head, and set up his carriage, and live in a street near a fashionable square, and keep an expensive and clumsy footman to answer the door, instead of a cheap and tidy housemaid.
For some weeks he drove us together, and then we were sold to a fashionable gentleman, and were sent up to London.
Every creature in Bath, except himself, was to be seen in the room at different periods of the fashionable hours; crowds of people were every moment passing in and out, up the steps and down; people whom nobody cared about, and nobody wanted to see; and he only was absent.
I have no intention of describing fashionable society in the GREAT EMPORIUM of the WESTERN WORLD.
The house is a good one, the furniture fashionable, and everything announces plenty and elegance.
"She does look like a fashionable young lady, but somehow I miss my little Rose, for children dressed like children in my day," answered Aunt Plenty, peering through her glasses with a troubled look, for she could not imagine the creature before her ever sitting in her lap, running to wait upon her, or making the house gay with a child's blithe presence.
He was a familiar figure at the race course, the opera, the fashionable clubs.
The artist prefers a hilly country because it is picturesque; the engineer a flat one because it is convenient; the man of pleasure likes what he calls "a fine woman"--she suits him; the fashionable young gentleman admires the fashionable young lady--she is of his kind; the toil-worn, fagged, probably irritable tutor, blind almost to beauty, insensible to airs and graces, glories chiefly in certain mental qualities: application, love of knowledge, natural capacity, docility, truthfulness, gratefulness, are the charms that attract his notice and win his regard.
Manson Mingott, whose monstrous obesity had long since made it impossible for her to attend the Opera, but who was always represented on fashionable nights by some of the younger members of the family.
It is no longer fashionable to trim them with knitted lace.
She tells me they're getting to be real fashionable again.