noun · rare

fad

fad · fads

лють, лютість, шаленість

причуда

Trend, Mode, Hype, Modeerscheinung

A phenomenon that becomes popular for a very short timeA phenomenon that becomes popular for a very short time.

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/fæd/

» It's a fad.

Das ist eine Modeerscheinung.

Das ist eine vorübergehende Laune.

Це примха.

Meaning

1 senses

A phenomenon that becomes popular for a very short time.
Mode, Trend, Modeerscheinung
причу́даpričúda

More definitions

an interest followed with exaggerated zeal

Examples

22 sentences

It's a fad.
Це примха.
deDas ist eine Modeerscheinung.
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It's just a fad.
deEs ist nur eine Modeerscheinung.
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I think it's a fad.
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Loose jackets are the latest fad.
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It was only a passing fad.
ruЭто была лишь минутная прихоть.
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Translations

8 languages

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Origin

Of English dialectal origin. Further origin obscure. Possibly from Old English ġefæd (“ord

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).

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