Noun
1. a general direction in which something tends to move;
"the shoreward tendency of the current""the trend of the stock market"2. general line of orientation;
"the river takes a southern course""the northeastern trend of the coast"3. a general tendency to change (as of opinion);
"not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book""a broad movement of the electorate to the right"4. the popular taste at a given time;
"leather is the latest vogue""he followed current trends""the 1920s had a style of their own"