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costumes

costumes is the plural of costume.

costumes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of costume.

Meaning of costume

Noun

costume (countable and uncountable, plural costumes)

  1. A style of dress, including garments, accessories and hairstyle, especially as characteristic of a particular country, period or people.
    • the sight of thousands of people gathered to watch men walk the streets openly in female costume1971, Tonie Metie, “Unmasquerade”, in Body Politic, number 1, page 1
  2. An outfit or a disguise worn as fancy dress etc.
    • We wore gorilla costumes to the party.
  3. A set of clothes appropriate for a particular occasion or season.
    • The bride wore a grey going-away costume.
  4. A swimming costume.
    • They call their bathing suits down there "costumes."1966, Bruce Brown, director, The Endless Summer

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Phrases with costumes

Questions about costumes

What is costumes the plural of?
Costumes is the plural of costume.

Words near costumes in the dictionary

  1. costumeless
  2. costumer
  3. costumeries
  4. costumers
  5. costumery
  6. costumes
  7. costumey
  8. costumic
  9. costumier
  10. costumiere
  11. costumieres

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Adapted from Wiktionary: costumes (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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