costume

Etymology

Borrowed from French costume, from Italian costuma, ultimately from Latin consuetudo, consuetudinem (“custom”); see custom, which is a doublet of costume.

Pronunciation

• (UK, noun, verb) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒs.tjuːm/, /ˈkɒs.tʃuːm/
• (US, noun) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑs.t(j)uːm/, /ˈkɑs.tʃuːm/, /ˈkɑs.təm/
• (US, verb) IPA^(key): /kɑsˈt(j)uːm/, /kɑsˈtʃuːm/, /ˈkɑs.t(j)uːm/, /ˈkɑs.tʃuːm/, /ˈkɑs.təm/

• Audio (US)

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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 dancer was wearing Highland costume.

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.

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.

Further reading

• costume in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• costume in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

• custome

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian costume. Doublet of coutume.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔs.tym/

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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

Verb

costume

1. first-person singular present indicative of costumer
2. third-person singular present indicative of costumer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of costumer
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of costumer
5. second-person singular imperative of costumer

Further reading

• “costume” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Etymology

From Latin cōnsuētūdō, cōnsuētūdinem, probably through a Vulgar Latin form *costūmen, from a contracted form *cosuetūmen. Doublet of the borrowed consuetudine.

Noun

costume m (plural costumi)

1. A custom, habit
2. A costume
3. A swimsuit

Anagrams

• mescuto

Etymology

See coustume.

Noun

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

1. custom
   • circa 1200, author unknown, Aucassin et Nicolette

     il n'est mie costume que nos entrocions li uns l'autre.

     it is not our habit to kill each other.

Alternative forms

• custume (obsolete, now eye dialect)

Etymology

From Old Portuguese costume, custume, from Vulgar Latin *costūmen < *cosuetūmen, from Latin cōnsuētūdinem, singular accusative of cōnsuētūdō.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kuʃ.ˈtu.mɨ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kos.ˈtu.mi/, /kus.ˈtu.mi/
• Hyphenation: cos‧tu‧me

Noun

costume m (plural costumes)

1. custom; tradition (traditional practice or behavior)

   O costume de trazer um pinheiro para dentro de casa durante o Natal.

   The custom of bringing a pine tree inside the house during Christmas.

   Synonym: tradição

2. custom; habit (action done on a regular basis)

   Temos o costume de comer pão toda manhã.

   We have the habit of eating bread every morning.

   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

Verb

costume

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of costumar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of costumar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of costumar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of costumar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kos.ˈtu.me/

Noun

costume n pl

1. plural of costum