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7-letter words (1 found)

COSTUME,

6-letter words (4 found)

COMETS,COMTES,CUSTOM,MUCOSE,

5-letter words (28 found)

COMES,COMET,COMTE,COMUS,COSET,COSTE,COTES,CUTES,ESCOT,ESTOC,MEOUS,MESTO,MOSTE,MOTES,MOTUS,MOUES,MOUSE,MOUST,MUSET,MUTES,SCOUT,SCUTE,SMOTE,SMOUT,SOUCE,SOUCT,TOMES,TOUSE,

4-letter words (56 found)

COME,COMS,COSE,COST,COTE,COTS,CUES,CUMS,CUTE,CUTS,ECOS,ECUS,EMOS,EMUS,MEOU,METS,MEUS,MOCS,MOES,MOSE,MOST,MOTE,MOTS,MOTU,MOUE,MOUS,MUSE,MUSO,MUST,MUTE,MUTS,OUST,OUTS,SCOT,SCUM,SCUT,SECO,SECT,SMUT,SOME,SOUM,SOUT,STEM,STUM,SUET,SUMO,TECS,TEMS,TOCS,TOES,TOME,TOMS,TOSE,TUMS,UMES,UTES,

3-letter words (45 found)

COS,COT,CUE,CUM,CUT,ECO,ECU,EMO,EMS,EMU,EST,MES,MET,MEU,MOC,MOE,MOS,MOT,MOU,MUS,MUT,OES,OMS,OSE,OUS,OUT,SEC,SET,SOC,SOM,SOT,SOU,SUE,SUM,TEC,TES,TOC,TOE,TOM,TUM,UME,UMS,USE,UTE,UTS,

2-letter words (17 found)

EM,ES,ET,ME,MO,MU,OE,OM,OS,OU,SO,ST,TE,TO,UM,US,UT,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 152 words from costume according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of costume

costume

Etymology

From Middle English costume, custume, from Old French costume, custume, from Italian costume, from a Vulgar Latin *cōnsuētūmen or *costūmen, from Latin cōnsuētūdinem, accusative singular of cōnsuētūdō (“custom, habit”). Doublet of consuetude and custom.

Verb circa 1823.

Pronunciation

  • (UK, noun, verb) IPA(key): /ˈkɒs.tjuːm/, /ˈkɒs.t͡ʃuːm/
  • (General American, noun) IPA(key): /ˈkɑsˌt(j)um/, /ˈkɑsˌt͡ʃum/, /ˈkɑs.tʊm/, /ˈkɑs.təm/
  • (General American, verb) IPA(key): /kɑsˈt(j)um/, /kɑsˈt͡ʃum/, /ˈkɑsˌt(j)um/, /ˈkɑsˌt͡ʃum/, /ˈkɑs.tʊm/, /ˈkɑs.təm/
  • Rhymes: (noun, verb) -ɒstum, -ɒstjum, -ɒstʃum, -ɒstʊm, -ɒstəm, (verb) -uːm

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.
  2. An outfit or a disguise worn as fancy dress etc.
  3. A set of clothes appropriate for a particular occasion or season.

Usage notes

  • Despite the meaning "traditional clothes," costume may be considered pejorative by some cultures as a reference to their own traditional dress, owing to interference from the sense "fancy dress, disguise" (such as if their traditional dress has often been appropriated by others as fancy dress). For example, many Indigenous North Americans disfavour the term costume to refer to their traditional and ritual garments and prefer the term regalia.

Synonyms

  • getup
  • outfit

Derived terms

Related terms

  • customary
  • custom

Translations

See also

  • uniform

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.
    • 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter XVIII
      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.

Translations

Further reading

  • “costume”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “costume”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • custome

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian costume, from a Vulgar Latin *cōnsuētūmen or *costūmen, from Latin cōnsuētūdinem (“custom, habit”), from cōnsuēscō (“accustom, habituate”), from con- (“with”) + suēscō (“become used or accustomed to”). First element con- derives from cum, from Old Latin com, from Proto-Italic *kom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“with, along”). Second element suēscō is from Proto-Indo-European *swe-dʰh₁-sk-, from *swé (“self”) + *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, set”); related to Latin suus (“one's own, his own”). Doublet of coutume. Cognate with English costume and custom.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɔs.tym/

Noun

costume m (plural costumes)

  1. a style of dress characteristic of a particular country, period or people
  2. an outfit or a disguise worn as fancy dress
  3. a set of clothes appropriate for a particular occasion or task
  4. a suit worn by a man

Related terms

  • coutume

Descendants

  • → German: Kostüm
    • → Estonian: kostüüm
  • → Romanian: costum
  • → Russian: костю́м (kostjúm)
    • → Azerbaijani: kostyum
    • → Armenian: կոստյում (kostyum)
    • → Georgian: კოსტიუმი (ḳosṭiumi)
    • → Kazakh: костюм (kostüm)
    • → Kyrgyz: костюм (kostyum)
    • → Latvian: kostīms
    • → Lithuanian: kostiumas
    • → Mongolian: костюм (kostjüm)
    • → Turkmen: kostýum
    • → Uyghur: كاستۇم (kastum)
    • → Uzbek: kostyum
    • → Yakut: көстүүм (köstüüm)
  • → Swedish: kostym
  • → Turkish: kostüm

Verb

costume

  1. inflection of costumer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

  • “costume”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Alternative forms

  • custume

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese costume, custume (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria); from Vulgar Latin *costūmen, *cōnsuētūmen, or *costūmen, from Latin cōnsuētūdinem, accusative singular of cōnsuētūdō (“custom, habit”), from cōnsuēscō (“accustom, habituate”), from con- (“with”) + suēscō (“become used or accustomed to”). First element con- derives from cum, from Old Latin com, from Proto-Italic *kom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“with, along”). Second element suēscō is from Proto-Indo-European *swe-dʰh₁-sk-, from *swé (“self”) + *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, set”); related to Latin suus (“one's own, his own”). Cognate with Portuguese costume, French coutume, and Spanish costumbre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kosˈtumɪ]

Noun

costume m (plural costumes)

  1. custom; tradition (traditional practice or behavior)
    Synonym: tradición
  2. custom; habit (action done on a regular basis)
    Synonyms: hábito, uso
  3. (law) custom (long-established practice, considered as unwritten law)

References

  • “costume” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “costume” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “costume” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “costume” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “costume” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian

Etymology

From a Vulgar Latin *cōnsuētūmen or *costūmen, from Latin cōnsuētūdinem (“custom, habit”), from cōnsuēscō (“accustom, habituate”), from con- (“with”) + suēscō (“become used or accustomed to”). First element con- derives from cum, from Old Latin com, from Proto-Italic *kom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“with, along”). Second element suēscō is from Proto-Indo-European *swe-dʰh₁-sk-, from *swé (“self”) + *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, set”); related to Latin suus (“one's own, his own”). Doublet of the borrowed consuetudine.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /koˈstu.me/
  • Rhymes: -ume
  • Hyphenation: co‧stù‧me

Noun

costume m (plural costumi)

  1. a custom, habit
    Synonyms: usanza, uso, abitudine
  2. a costume
  3. a swimsuit
    Synonym: costume da bagno

Derived terms

  • costume da bagno
  • costume nazionale
  • costumista
  • in costume adamitico

Descendants

  • → French: costume

Anagrams

  • mescuto

Old French

Alternative forms

  • coustume
  • custume

Etymology

Related to Old French coustume, from a Vulgar Latin *cōnsuētūmen or *costūmen, from Latin cōnsuētūdinem, accusative singular of cōnsuētūdō (“custom, habit”), from cōnsuēscō (“accustom, habituate”), from con- (“with”) + suēscō (“become used or accustomed to”). First element con- derives from cum, from Old Latin com, from Proto-Italic *kom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“with, along”). Second element suēscō is from Proto-Indo-European *swe-dʰh₁-sk-, from *swé (“self”) + *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, set”); related to Latin suus (“one's own, his own”).

Noun

costume oblique singular, m (oblique plural costumes, nominative singular costumes, nominative plural costume)

  1. custom

Descendants

  • English: costume, custom
  • French: costume, coutume

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: cos‧tu‧me

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese costume, custume, from Vulgar Latin *cōstūmen, *cōnsuētūmen, or *costūmen, from Latin cōnsuētūdinem (“custom, habit”), from cōnsuēscō (“accustom, habituate”), from con- (“with”) + suēscō (“become used or accustomed to”). First element con- derives from cum, from Old Latin com, from Proto-Italic *kom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“with, along”). Second element suēscō is from Proto-Indo-European *swe-dʰh₁-sk-, from *swé (“self”) + *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, set”); related to Latin suus (“one's own, his own”).

Noun

costume m (plural costumes)

  1. custom; tradition (traditional practice or behavior)
    Synonym: tradição
  2. custom; habit (action done on a regular basis)
    Synonym: hábito
  3. (law) custom (long-established practice, considered as unwritten law)
  4. outfit; costume (a set of clothes appropriate for a particular activity)
    Synonym: traje
Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:costume.

Alternative forms
  • custume (obsolete, now eye dialect)
Derived terms
  • costumar
  • costumeiro

Etymology 2

Verb

costume

  1. inflection of costumar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:costumar.

Further reading

  • “costume” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kos.ˈtu.me/

Noun

costume n pl

  1. plural of costum

Source: wiktionary.org