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Meaning of 'costume' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Costume [ n.]
- Dress in general; esp., the distinctive style of dress of a people, class, or period.
- Such an arrangement of accessories, as in a picture, statue, poem, or play, as is appropriate to the time, place, or other circumstances represented or described.
- A character dress, used at fancy balls or for dramatic purposes.

Meaning of 'costume' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . costume [ n]
Meaning (1):
- the attire worn in a play or at a fancy dress ball
Example in sentence:
  • he won the prize for best costume
Meaning (2):
- the attire characteristic of a country or a time or a social class
Example in sentence:
  • he wore his national costume
Meaning (3):
- unusual or period attire not characteristic of or appropriate to the time and place
Example in sentence:
  • in spite of the heat he insisted on his woolen costume
4 . costume [ v]
Meaning (4):
- dress in a costume
Example in sentence:
  • We dressed up for Halloween as pumpkins

Nearby Words:

coscinomancy coscoroba cosecant cosen cosenage cosening cosentient cosey cosher cosherer

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