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 Definitions of costume  [ˈkɒs tum, -tyum;]  

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Definition of 'costume' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) costume
style of dress, including accessories and hairdos, esp. that peculiar to a nation, group, or historical period.

2.  costume
clothing of another period, place, etc., or for a particular occasion or season.

3.  costume
a set of garments, esp. women's garments, selected for wear at a single time; outfit.

4. (v.t.) costume
to furnish with a costume; dress.

5. (adj.) costume
of or characterized by the wearing of costumes:
a costume party.

Etymology:  (1705–15; < F < It: usage, habit, dress; doublet of custom)

Definition of 'costume' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) costume
the attire worn in a play or at a fancy dress ball
"he won the prize for best costume"

2. (noun) costume
unusual or period attire not characteristic of or appropriate to the time and place
"in spite of the heat he insisted on his woolen costume"

3. (noun) costume
the prevalent fashion of dress (including accessories and hair style as well as garments)

4. (verb) costume
the attire characteristic of a country or a time or a social class
"he wore his national costume"

5. (verb) costume, dress up
dress in a costume
"We dressed up for Halloween as pumpkins"

6. (verb) costume
furnish with costumes; as for a film or play


Definition of 'costume' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) costume
clothing worn to make sb look like another person
a costume designer for the movies; a Halloween costume

2.  costume
clothing from a particular time or place
Elizabethan costume; traditional Romanian costume


Definition of 'costume' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) costume
dress in general; esp., the distinctive style of dress of a people, class, or period

2. (noun) costume
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

3. (noun) costume
a character dress, used at fancy balls or for dramatic purposes


Translation of 'costume' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: an outfit, especially for a particular purpose
swimming-costume.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: kostuum Arabic flag Arabic: لِباس خاص Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: костюм
Brazilian flag Brazilian: traje Czech flag Czech: úbor German flag German: das Kostüm
Danish flag Danish: dragt Greek flag Greek: στολή, φορεσιά Spanish flag Spanish: traje
Estonian flag Estonian: kostüüm Farsi flag Farsi: لباس Finnish flag Finnish: asuste
French flag French: costume Hebrew flag Hebrew: תִלבּוֹשֶת Hindi flag Hindi: वेशभूषा
Croatian flag Croatian: kostim Hungarian flag Hungarian: viselet Indonesian flag Indonesian: kostum
Icelandic flag Icelandic: búningur Italian flag Italian: costume Japanese flag Japanese: ~着
Korean flag Korean: 복장 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: kostiumas Latvian flag Latvian: kostīms
Malay flag Malay: kostum Dutch flag Dutch: kostuum Norwegian flag Norwegian: -drakt,–dress
Polish flag Polish: kostium Persian flag Persian: لباس Pashto flag Pashto: کالی
Portuguese flag Portuguese: fato Romanian flag Romanian: cos­tum Russian flag Russian: костюм
Slovak flag Slovak: úbor Slovenian flag Slovenian: noša, obleka Serbian flag Serbian: kostim
Swedish flag Swedish: dräkt Thai flag Thai: เครื่องแต่งกายสำหรับจุดปร Turkish flag Turkish: kıyafet, ...kıyafeti
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: (針對特定目的的)服裝 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: костюм Urdu flag Urdu: لباس، جوڑا، پوشاک
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: trang bị Chinese flag Chinese: (在特定场合下穿的)全套服装,装束

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