Meaning of fashionable in English

fashionable
adjective
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/ˈfæʃ.ən.ə.bəl/ us
/ˈfæʃ.ən.ə.bəl/
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popular at a particular time:
a fashionable nightclub/restaurant
fashionable ideas/clothes
it is fashionable to It's not fashionable to wear short skirts at the moment.
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fashionable
  • fashionableShe's so fashionable.
  • in fashionTighter trousers for men are back in fashion.
  • inShort jackets are in this season.
  • coolHe was wearing a pair of cool sunglasses.
  • hipWe went to the hip new club in town.
  • trendyHe likes trendy clothes and modern furniture.
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wearing clothes, doing things, and going to places that are in fashion:
A fashionable couple posed elegantly at the next table.
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(Definition of fashionable from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

fashionable | American Dictionary

fashionable
adjective
us
/ˈfæʃ·ə·nə·bəl/
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wearing clothes, doing things, and going to places that are considered stylish or acceptable:
They are a fashionable couple.
Fashionable also means popular at a particular time:
fashionable restaurants/clothing

fashionably

adverb us
/ˈfæʃ·ə·nə·bli/
fashionably dressed women
We were fashionably late (= slightly late but acceptable).
(Definition of fashionable from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

fashionable | Business English

fashionable
adjective
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/ˈfæʃənəbl/ us
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popular at a particular time or among a particular group of people:
It's no longer fashionable to boast about how big your bonus is.
They bought a house in a fashionable area of the city.
(Definition of fashionable from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of fashionable

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Alongside the desire to accord with fashionable ideals of familial life, more established imperatives become apparent.
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Most producers mentioned that they now produce fashionable shoes in order to compete in the market.
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Rather than directly indict the fashionable elite, critics of the bearing rein were quick to attribute its prevalence to working class cruelty and stupidity.
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One in fashionable perfume isn't nice somehow, showing ignorance once.
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It makes fashionable claims about the ' theatricality ' of preaching and about the ' nuanced ' readings on offer in subsequent essays.
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Counter-productive masters were put on the back burner (front burner did not become fashionable until the 1970s).
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It clearly allied its sitters with fashionable and widely read edicts on marriage.
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However, in the sewing sector, purchase of fabric abroad is also a strategy to provide unique and fashionable products.
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Tones are thus being used like contemporary hit melodies - once they are no longer fashionable, they are replaced.
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The assembly was the focal point for a town's fashionable social life.
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In recent years, interdisciplinary working has become increasingly fashionable within academia.
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Discussions of the crinoline often focus on the unmanageable and frivolous behavior of fashionable women.
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What gives us the heterogeneity and endless eclecticism is the constant flirting with fashionable art values, or worse, amateur play with philosophy.
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He said many people turned to anglicisms only to appear fashionable, by using words such as "look" instead of "a very beautiful word like immagine".
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They are all either made out of run-of-the-mill material or depend upon currently fashionable devices for coining new expressions.
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Translations of fashionable

in Chinese (Traditional)
流行的, 時髦的, 時尚的…
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流行的, 时髦的, 时尚的…
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de moda…
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da moda, elegante, da moda [masculine-feminine]…
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流行の, 流行（りゅうこう）の, 高級（こうきゅう）な…
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moda, modaya uygun, son moda…
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à la mode, en vogue, prisé/-ée…
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módní, elegantní…
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модний, фешенебельний…
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