trend
noun
1. a general direction in which something tends to move
- the trend of the stock market
Similar word(s): tendency
Definition categories: location, direction, way
2. general line of orientation
- the northeastern trend of the coast
Similar word(s): course
Definition categories: location, direction, way
3. a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
- not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book
Similar word(s): drift, movement
Definition categories: thought, disposition, inclination, tendency
4. the popular taste at a given time
- he followed current trends
Definition categories: thought, appreciation, discernment, perceptiveness, taste
Sentences with trend as a noun:
- the trend of a coastline;
- There is a trend, these days, for people in films not to smoke.
- Miniskirts were one of the biggest trends of the 1960s.