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# fashioned

«fashioned» in Mova's school dictionary: **belonging to an earlier time and no longer common or modern** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective, mostly in «old-fashioned» (old-fashioned); also the past form of «fashion» (fashion, fashions, fashioned, fashioning)

### meaning for a pupil

1) «Old-fashioned» means belonging to an earlier time and no longer common or modern. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fashioned/#m1)

2) Fashioned (verb) means made or shaped by hand, often from simple materials. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fashioned/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons, children compare old-fashioned toys, clothes and machines with modern ones. In stories, a character might fashion a raft or a spear from sticks. Phrases: «old-fashioned», «good old-fashioned …», «fashioned from», «fashioned into».

### examples

- Grandma has an old-fashioned telephone with a dial. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fashioned/#x1)
- That hat looks really old-fashioned. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fashioned/#x2)
- He fashioned a boat from a piece of bark. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fashioned/#x3)
- The children fashioned a shelter out of branches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fashioned/#x4)
- We played good old-fashioned games like hopscotch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fashioned/#x5)
- The ring was fashioned from silver. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fashioned/#x6)
- Some people think writing letters is old-fashioned. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fashioned/#x7)
- Cursed be the fire in which it was forged and the man who fashioned it!’ [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fashioned/#x8)

### note

Mostly found in the compound «old-fashioned», written with a hyphen. «Fashioned from» = made out of. Opposite of old-fashioned: «modern», «up to date», «fashionable». Not a number word.

### In the corpora

- [The sergeant speaks in old-fashioned words: «Oddsbodikins! … Rouse thee, old loon» (= Goodness!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon/33/)
- [The way a character speaks, posh, rough, local or old-fashioned, helps to show what they are like.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/21-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way/25/)
- [Clues like candles, horses and carts, or old-fashioned words can show a diary is from long ago.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/24-persuasive-letters-newspaper-articles-and-diaries/26/)
- ["Departed this life" means died; it is old-fashioned and found on old gravestones.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/1-death-polite-and-joking/8/)
- ["Breathed his last" means died; it is old-fashioned and solemn.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/1-death-polite-and-joking/21/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fashioned» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fashioned/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.