fashion, style, mode, vogue, fad, rage, craze mean the usage accepted by those who want to be up-to-date. fashion is the most general term and applies to any way of dressing, behaving, writing, or performing that is favored at any one time or place.
the current fashionstyle often implies a distinctive fashion adopted by people of taste.
a media baron used to traveling in stylemode suggests the fashion of the moment among those anxious to appear elegant and sophisticated.
slim bodies are the mode at this resort vogue stresses the wide acceptance of a fashion.
short skirts are back in voguefad suggests caprice in taking up or in dropping a fashion.
last year's fad is over rage and craze stress intense enthusiasm in adopting a fad.
Cajun food was the rage nearly everywhere for a time
crossword puzzles once seemed just a passing craze but have lasted
Examples of fad in a Sentence
Noun (1)
She's always interested in the latest fads.
once the fad for that kind of music had passed, nobody would have been caught dead listening to it