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coster

coster noun: a costard: a large apple good for cooking; any apple. Also the clipping of costermonger.

Noun

coster (plural costers)

  1. (obsolete) A costard: a large apple good for cooking; any apple.
  2. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Acraea.

Proper noun capitalized: Coster

Coster (plural Costers)

  1. A surname.

Also used as

coster is also the clipping of costermonger.

Forms of coster

Noun
pluralcosters
Proper noun
pluralCosters

Words formed from coster

Questions about coster

What does coster mean?
Coster means a costard: a large apple good for cooking; any apple.
What part of speech is coster?
Coster can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of coster?
The plural of coster is costers.

Words near coster in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: coster (page history and authors); Coster (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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