A trend is what's hip or popular at a certain point in time. While a trend usually refers to a certain style in fashion or entertainment, there could be a trend toward warmer temperatures (if people are following trends associated with global warming).
A trend simply reflects what seems to be going around at any given time. A trend can be in any area and doesn't only reflect fashion, pop culture and entertainment. There can also be a trend in the stock market to be bullish or bearish, depending on economic indicators, or a political trend reflecting a nation’s current mood. Some trends are fun, some fabulous, some appalling, but however long they last, you can be sure there will always be a new trend coming along to replace the old.
Definitions of trend
noun
a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
“not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book”
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- evolutionary trend
a general direction of evolutionary change
- gravitation
a figurative movement toward some attraction
- neoteny
an evolutionary trend to be born earlier so that development is cut off at an earlier stage and juvenile characteristics are retained in adults of the species
- type of:
- disposition, inclination, tendency
an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others
- evolutionary trend
noun
a general direction in which something tends to move
noun
the popular taste at a given time
“he followed current trends”
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- New Look
a style of women's clothing created by Christian Dior in 1947; involved a tight bodice and narrow waist and a flowing pleated skirt
- fashion
the latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior
- bandwagon
a popular trend that attracts growing support
- cult of personality
intense devotion to a particular person
- cut
the style in which a garment is cut
- haute couture, high fashion, high style
trend-setting fashions
- craze, cult, fad, furor, furore, rage
an interest followed with exaggerated zeal
- retro
a fashion reminiscent of the past
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- appreciation, discernment, perceptiveness, taste
delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values)
noun
general line of orientation
verb
turn sharply; change direction abruptly
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