noun
Meaning 1
A phenomenon that becomes popular for a very short time.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
fad
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/fæd/
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noun
Meaning 2
Initialism of flavin adenine dinucleotide.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
Topics: biochemistry, biology, chemistry, microbiology, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
an interest followed with exaggerated zeal
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he always follows the latest fads
- it was all the rage that season
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: craze, furor, furore, cult, rage
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fashion
History
Etymology
Of English dialectal origin. Further origin obscure. Possibly from Old English ġefæd (“order, decorum”) (compare Old English ġefæd (“orderly, tidy”), fadian, ġefadian (“to set in order, arrange”), whence Middle English faden (“to arrange”)); or from French fadaise ("a trifling thought"; see fadaise).
Across languages
Translations
52 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: تَقْلِيعَة (taqlīʕa) — phenomenon
- Catalan: moda — phenomenon
- Chinese Mandarin: 时尚 (shíshàng) — phenomenon
- Czech: přechodná móda — phenomenon
- Czech: módní výstřelek — phenomenon
- Czech: pobláznění — phenomenon
- Czech: pomíjivá móda — phenomenon
- Dutch: modegril — phenomenon
- Dutch: manie — phenomenon
- Dutch: rage — phenomenon
- Esperanto: furoro — phenomenon
- Finnish: villitys — phenomenon
- Finnish: muoti-ilmiö — phenomenon
- Finnish: muotivillitys — phenomenon
- Finnish: muotihullutus — phenomenon
- Finnish: muoti — phenomenon
- French: mode — phenomenon
- French: lubie — phenomenon
- German: Mode — phenomenon
- German: Trend — phenomenon
- German: Modeerscheinung — phenomenon
- German: Fimmel — phenomenon
- German: Hype — phenomenon
- Italian: moda — phenomenon
- Italian: andazzo — phenomenon
- Italian: tendenza — phenomenon
- Japanese: ファッド — phenomenon
- Kyrgyz: кызыгуу (kızıguu) — phenomenon
- Kyrgyz: кызыгып ээлигүү (kızıgıp eeligüü) — phenomenon
- Kyrgyz: кумардануу (kumardanuu) — phenomenon
- Kyrgyz: ээлигүү (eeligüü) — phenomenon
- Kyrgyz: берилүү (berilüü) — phenomenon
- Macedonian: за́нес (zánes) — phenomenon
- Macedonian: мо́да (móda) — phenomenon
- Macedonian: ма́нија (mánija) — phenomenon
- Norwegian: trend — phenomenon
- Plautdietsch: Daumel — phenomenon
- Polish: moda — phenomenon
- Portuguese: moda — phenomenon
- Russian: причу́да (pričúda) — phenomenon
- Serbo-Croatian: moda — phenomenon
- Serbo-Croatian: modni trend — phenomenon
- Serbo-Croatian: modni hir — phenomenon
- Spanish: moda — phenomenon
- Spanish: moda pasajera — phenomenon
- Spanish: voga fugaz — phenomenon
- Spanish: fashion efímero — phenomenon
- Swedish: fluga — phenomenon
- Swedish: dagslända — phenomenon
- Tagalog: uso — phenomenon
- Turkish: moda — phenomenon
- Turkish: trend — phenomenon