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costen

/ˈkɒ.sən/

costen verb: to try; tempt.

Verb

costen (third-person singular simple present costens, present participle costening, simple past and past participle costened)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To try; tempt.

costen meaning in Bengali

costen in Bengali

চেষ্টা করা, প্রলুব্ধ করা

Forms of costen

third-person singular presentcostens
present participlecostening
past participlecostened
pastcostened

Origin of costen

From Middle English costnien, from Old English costnian, subsidiary form of Old English costian (“to tempt, try, prove, examine”), from Proto-Germanic *kustōną (“to try, taste”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵews- (“to enjoy, taste”). Cognate with German kosten (“to taste”). More at choose.

Questions about costen

What does costen mean?
Costen means to try; tempt.
What is costen in Bengali?
Costen in Bengali is চেষ্টা করা, প্রলুব্ধ করা. See Costen meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is costen?
Costen is a verb.
How do you pronounce costen?
Costen is pronounced /ˈkɒ.sən/.
What is the past tense of costen?
The past tense of costen is costened.

Words near costen in the dictionary

  1. costellated
  2. Costello
  3. Costello syndrome
  4. Costelloe
  5. Costellos
  6. costen
  7. Costen's syndrome
  8. costening
  9. coster
  10. coster-monger
  11. coster-mongers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: costen (page history and authors); costen (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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