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Image:Highlander-kilt.jpg|thumb|right|A reenactor wearing a traditional Highland costume.

English

Pronunciation

  • , IPA: /ˈkɒst(j)uːm/,
  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-costume.ogg


Noun

  1. A style of dress, including garments, accessories, and hairstyle, especially as characteristic of a particular country, period, or people.
  2. : The dancer was wearing Highland costume.
  3. An outfit or a disguise worn as fancy dress etc.
  4. : She wore a gorilla costume to the party.
  5. A set of clothes appropriate for a particular occasion or season.
  6. : The bride wore a grey going-away costume.


Derived terms


Translations

  • German: {{t-|de|Kostüm|n}}
  • Hungarian:
  • German: {{t-|de|Kostüm|n}}
  • Hungarian: ,
  • German: {{t-|de|Kostüm|n}}
  • Hungarian: ,

Verb

{{en-verb|costumes|costuming|costumed|costumed}}

  1. To dress or adorn with a costume or appropriate garb.


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French

Pronunciation

  • An audio transcript can be found at Fr-costume.ogg


Noun

  1. A suit worn by a man


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Italian

Noun

{{it-noun|costum|m|e|i}}

  1. custom, habit
  2. costume#English|costume
  3. swimsuit


Synonyms


Derived terms


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Portuguese

Noun

  1. (use) custom
  2. #English|costume


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Romanian

Pronunciation

IPA: /kos.'tu.me/

Noun

costume


de:costume el:costume fr:costume gl:costume ko:costume io:costume id:costume it:costume hu:costume no:costume pl:costume pt:costume ru:costume fi:costume ta:costume te:costume vi:costume tr:costume zh:costume

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Costume \Cos"tume`\ (k?s"t?m` or k?s-t?m"), n. [F. costume, It.
costume custom, dress, fr. L. consuetumen (not found), for
consuetudo custom. See Custom, and cf. Consuetude.]
1. Dress in general; esp., the distinctive style of dress of
a people, class, or period.
[1913 Webster]

2. 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.
[1913 Webster]

I began last night to read Walter Scott's Lay of the
Last Minstrel . . . .I was extremely delighted with
the poetical beauty of some parts . . . .The
costume, too, is admirable. --Sir J.
Mackintosh.
[1913 Webster]

3. A character dress, used at fancy balls or for dramatic
purposes.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet costume
n 1: the attire worn in a play or at a fancy dress ball; "he won
the prize for best costume"
2: 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: the prevalent fashion of dress (including accessories and
hair style as well as garments)
4: the attire characteristic of a country or a time or a social
class; "he wore his national costume"
v 1: dress in a costume; "We dressed up for Halloween as
pumpkins" [syn: dress up]
2: furnish with costumes; as for a film or play
Moby Dictionary
accouter , apparel , array , attire , ballet skirt , bedizenment ,
bib and tucker , blackface , buskin , cap and bells , caparison ,
clothes , clothing , clown white , disguise , drapery , dress , dressing ,
duds , equip , fashion , fatigues , feathers , fig , fit , fit out , frock ,
garb , garments , gear , getup , greasepaint , guise , habiliment , habit ,
investiture , investment , kit , linen , livery , makeup , masquerade ,
motley , outfit , practical piece , prop , property , rags , raiment ,
rig , rig out , rig up , robes , sock , sportswear , style , suit ,
theatrical makeup , threads , tights , togs , toilette , trim , turn out ,
tutu , uniform , vestment , vesture , wear , wearing apparel


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