Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A style of dress, including garments, accessories, and hairstyle, especially as characteristic of a particular country, period, or people.
- n. An outfit or a disguise worn on Mardi Gras, Halloween, or similar occasions.
- n. A set of clothes appropriate for a particular occasion or season.
- v. To put a costume on; dress.
- v. To design or furnish costumes for.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An obsolete form of custom.
- n. Custom or usage with respect to place and time, as represented in art or literature; distinctive character or habit in action, appearance, dress, etc.; hence, keeping or congruity in representation.
- n. Mode of dressing; external dress. Specifically— An established mode or custom in dress; the style of dress peculiar to a people, tribe, or nation, to a particular period, or to a particular character, profession, or class of people.
- To dress; furnish with a costume; provide appropriate dress for: as, to costume a play; “costumed in black,”
- Reflexively, to put an unusual dress on; dress for a special occasion.
Wiktionary
- n. A style of dress, including garments, accessories and hairstyle, especially as characteristic of a particular country, period or people.
- n. An outfit or a disguise worn as fancy dress etc.
- n. A set of clothes appropriate for a particular occasion or season.
- v. To dress or adorn with a costume or appropriate garb.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Dress in general; esp., the distinctive style of dress of a people, class, or period.
- n. 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.
- n. A character dress, used at fancy balls or for dramatic purposes.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the attire worn in a play or at a fancy dress ball
- v. furnish with costumes; as for a film or play
- v. dress in a costume
- n. unusual or period attire not characteristic of or appropriate to the time and place
- n. the attire characteristic of a country or a time or a social class
- n. the prevalent fashion of dress (including accessories and hair style as well as garments)
Etymologies
- From French costume, from Italian costuma, from Medieval Latin costuma, ultimately, from Latin consuetudo ("custom"); see custom, which is a doublet of costume. (Wiktionary)
- French, from Italian, style, dress, from Latin cōnsuētūdō, custom; see custom. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“And yes, that means that I only have 11 days to be struck by creative brilliance, because I still don't have a costume and last time I checked, the invitation to the * costume party* did indicate that it would be preferable to wear a * costume*.”
“Our tradition of collecting candy in costume is mere child's play to Roman Catholic countries.”
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“But it still took two shocks for DC Comics to rethink the Robin costume from the bottom up.”
“And I agree with LucaStefan, the Robin costume is perfect for that.”
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“The dirty white of his costume is the token of his inferiority.”
“I don't get why her costume is any worse than the painted on costume Hal Jordan wears.”
“Naturally I love this, your costume is the most impressive one but I also adore the rabbit and the mad hatter.”
“Rather than wearing it for symbolic purposes or to hide his identity, the costume is his power and also his life support machine.”
“She did what she called a costume test, but it wasreally sort of introducing us to our world.”
“The other three members of Os Trapalhões take on the roles of the Oz-bound characters: Zacarias as the Scarecrow (with long straw blonde hair and heavy make-up, strangely resembling Sylvia Miles), Mussum as the Tin Man (his costume is an industrial tin drum) and Dede Santana as the Lion (his costume is a brown afro and a furry vest with a tail hanging from its backside).”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘costume’.
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Film
jidaigeki, samurai, Kurosawa, action, comedy, drama, Bergman, Buñuel, surreal, rotoscope, melodrama, Cinerama and 333 more...
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Whooping Crane
Words for the Whooping Crane Alphabet book
ultralight, patuxent, maryland, wisconsin, florida, people, chick, juvenile, adult, swamp monster, teach, learn and 48 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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astrosfan's Words
pantaloons, schadenfreude, astonishing, eve, static, freeze, luscious, voluptuous, stagnant, mimic, speed, vespertillinoid and 302 more...
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words that make me happy
christmas, kate, glitter, sparkle, ice, icicle, snow, polar, aurora borealis, northern lights, skylight, fairy lights and 71 more...
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Pseudorandom words
Words found through Wordie's random word function. I didn't take phrases, foreign, misspelled, or madeupical words, so I looked at about 200 words to assemble this list.
I was surprise...ishkabibble, jericho, inopercular, oppositional, puerility, chronometer, cavern, cisternae, osteospermum, boxcar, misandry, savannah and 88 more...
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party lines
types of parties
birthday, hen, surprise, tea, dinner, coming out, hunting, communist, political, third, first, guilty and 25 more...
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hideout
places to hide
bunker, cave, safe house, shelter, attic, tunnel, closet, refrigerator, basement, tree, trunk, chamber and 47 more...
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