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costume English

Meaning costume meaning

What does costume mean?
Definitions in simple English

costume Noun

— A costume is the clothes you wear that makes you look like someone or something else. For Halloween this year I wore a skeleton costume.

costume

— noun the attire worn in a play or at a fancy dress ball he won the prize for best costume — noun 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 — verb (= dress up) dress in a costume We dressed up for Halloween as pumpkins — noun the prevalent fashion of dress (including accessories and hair style as well as garments) — noun the attire characteristic of a country or a time or a social class he wore his national costume — verb furnish with costumes; as for a film or play

Synonyms costume synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as costume?

costume English » English

dress suit clothing attire outfit clothes garb apparel garment fancy dress vesture raiment habit dress up disguise wear robe vest uniform turnout trappings swimsuit swimming trunks swimming suit swimming costume suit of clothes rigout rig personal appearance overall national dress masquerade make up landscaping invest interior decoration hats habiliment guise gown get-up gear garniture garments furniture equipment endue dressing decoration costumes

Topics costume topics

What do people use costume to talk about?
Daily life Clothing

Traditional clothing

Conjugation costume conjugation

How do you conjugate costume?

costume · verb

Examples costume examples

How do I use costume in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Tom and Mary attended a costume party.
Why aren't you wearing a costume?
Mary didn't want to wear a sexy costume for Halloween so she decided to dress like an Amish woman.
Tom went to a costume party last weekend.
Tom invited us to a costume party.
Have you decided what your Halloween costume will be?
Do you like Mary's new Halloween costume?
Do you like my new Halloween costume?
Is your Halloween costume scary or cute?
Mary made her own Halloween costume.
That's a cute costume.
Nice costume.
What kind of costume are you planning on wearing to the Halloween party?
She wore a pirate costume for Halloween.
Where can I rent a Halloween costume?
I like your costume.
We've been invited to a costume party.

Movie subtitles

All right, what's a costume that we can do at the last minute?
I found this costume on the couch.
Oh, we put such a lot of work into that costume. I'm sure there was a good reason.
So, Santa costume makes sense?
Despite his Santa costume for the parade?
It's for my Halloween costume! Duh!
Which is why I got you the most amazing costume, and I really think you're gonna love it.
I will wear your costume, but only if you promise to stop micromanaging my first gay Halloween.
I like your costume.
I'm digging your hot-cop costume.
Mr. Hammer, your costume is wonderful.
This costume has been condemned by Good Housekeeping.
Take your costume off!
I'm telling you, Mr. Holmes, there are two men inside that costume.
Is that your costume?
You should change your costume, dear. -Blanche!
Costume change. -Yes, ma'am.
Well, I've had 12 costume changes!
That's a costume I could wear.
You wear a costume in it.
The costume includes a knife attached to your belt in a leather sheath, correct?
It was part of my costume, but I didn't notice.
Your costume was exquisite.
Don't you think my shepherdess costume makes me look young?
Then at the back of his scripts he would make suggested illustrations for the art and costume departments.
Oh, you've put on a beauty-and-beast costume, eh?
And, Jack, don't forget the costume box.
Over the fireplace is an oil painting of some ape in a costume holding a sword.
Put on Barbara's costume.
She has on my costume.
Darling, could we have a costume ball just as you used to?
I'll design a costume all by myself and give you the surprise of your life.
They were just some ideas I was sketching for my costume for the ball.
I merely thought that you might find a costume among the family portraits that would suit you.
It certainly makes a very nice costume, sir. And economical, too.
Well, she's keeping her costume a terrific secret. Wouldn't even let me into her room. Oh, lovely.
Oh, please don't come in, Beatrice. I don't want anyone to see my costume. Oh.
My stupidity about the costume.
So I took his costume to bring some earrings here without anybody recognizing me.

News and current affairs

A land divided by caste, creed, color, culture, cuisine, custom, and costume is united in consensus around a great conviction: cricket.
Many TV producers have internalized these controls so well that they are an unconscious fact of life, and audiences now entertained by endless costume dramas and soap operas are not clamoring for freer political content.
We are a developing country, it is said; after all, it is not just your eye against his, your legs against hers, but what you can do against their trainer, their running shoe, their ergodynamic costume, their titanium archer's bow.

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