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cosplays

cosplays is the plural of cosplay.

cosplays is the third-person singular simple present indicative of cosplay.

Meaning of cosplay

Noun

cosplay (countable and uncountable, plural cosplays)

  1. (uncountable) The art or practice of costuming oneself as a (usually fictional) character.
    • Also the popularity can be seen in doujinshi and cosplay (costume play) and the popularity is not just junior high girls.1993 May 14, Hitoshi Doi, translating Animedia, “Animedia-February 1993 [all]”, in rec.arts.anime (Usenet), archived from the original on 30 Jul 2026
  2. (countable) A skit or instance of this art or practice.
    • Central to the activity of cosplay is elaborate costuming, though some cosplays are enacted using a game system.2010, Sarah Lynne Bowman, “Historical Evolution and Cultural Permutations”, in The Functions of Role-Playing Games […], Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 29

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Questions about cosplays

What is cosplays the plural of?
Cosplays is the plural of cosplay.

Words near cosplays in the dictionary

  1. cosplay
  2. cosplayed
  3. cosplayer
  4. cosplayers
  5. cosplaying
  6. cosplays
  7. cosplaytriot
  8. cosplaytriots
  9. cosponsor
  10. cosponsored
  11. cosponsoring

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cosplays (page history and authors); cosplay (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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