Costume

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
  • The 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.
  • 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • 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)
  • Verb Form
    costumed    costumes    costuming   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    furnish    provide    supply    render    dress    raiment    garment    tog    enclothe    clothe   
    Cross Reference
    uniform   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    clothing    clothes    dress    garb    outfit    guise    rig    rigout    bloomers    uniform   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bloom    Blum    Blume    Doom    Hume    Khartoum    abloom    assume    bloom    boom   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    dress    garb    outfit    suit    hat    coat    ornament    furniture    style    colors