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costumed

costumed is the simple past and past participle of costume.

Meaning of costume

Verb

costume (third-person singular simple present costumes, present participle costuming, simple past and past participle costumed)

  1. To dress or adorn with a costume or appropriate garb.
    • Seated on the carpet, by the side of this basin, was seen Mr. Rochester, costumed in shawls, with a turban on his head. His dark eyes and swarthy skin and Paynim features suited the costume exactly. He looked the very model of an Eastern emir, an agent or a victim of the bowstring.1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter XVIII, in Jane Eyre. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC

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Adjective

costumed (not comparable)

  1. Wearing a costume; disguised.
    • For a livelier scene, head here on Friday or Saturday night, when mass beer-sculling (chugging) and yodeling are accompanied by a brass band and costumed waitresses ferrying foaming beer steins about the atmospheric, cellarlike space.2006, Marc Llewellyn, Lee Mylne, Frommer′s Australia from $60 a Day, 14th edition, page 133

Words formed from costumed

Questions about costumed

What does costumed mean?
Costumed means wearing a costume; disguised.
What is costumed the simple past and past participle of?
Costumed is the simple past and past participle of costume.
What part of speech is costumed?
Costumed is an adjective.

Words near costumed in the dictionary

  1. costume jewellery
  2. costume jewelries
  3. costume jewelry
  4. costume parties
  5. costume party
  6. costumed
  7. costumeless
  8. costumer
  9. costumeries
  10. costumers
  11. costumery

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Adapted from Wiktionary: costumed (page history and authors); costume (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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