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Costume

Definition: Costume

Costume

Adjective

1. Characterized by the use of period costume or fancy dress; "a costume movie"; "a costume ball".

Noun

1. The attire worn in a play or at a fancy dress ball; "he won the prize for best costume".

2. Unusual or period attire not characteristic of or appropriate to the time and place; "in spite of the heat he insisted on his woolen costume".

3. The prevalent fashion of dress (including accessories and hair style as well as garments).

4. The attire characteristic of a country or a time or a social class; "he wore his national costume".

Verb

1. Dress in a costume; "We dressed up for Halloween as pumpkins".

2. Furnish with costumes; as for a film or play.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "costume" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Costume

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The term costume can refer to wardrobe and dress in general, or to the distinctive style of dress of a particular people, class, or period. It can also refer to the artistic arrangement of accessories in a picture, statue, poem, or play, as is appropriate to the time, place, or other circumstances being represented or described, or to a particular suit of clothing worn to portray the wearer as a character or type of character other than their regular persona at a social event such as a fancy party or in an artistic theatrical performance.

Theatrical costumes are used, in combination with other aspects, to portray performers' age, gender role, profession, social class, personality, and suchlike. Sometimes theatrical costumes are literal interpretations of what the costume designer thinks the character would wear if the character actually existed, and quite often theatrical costumes are stylized to exaggerate some aspect of a character.

The wearing of costumes is an essential part of Halloween celebrations, and (to a lesser extent) costumes are also worn in conjunction with other holiday celebrations, such as Christmas and Easter. Halloween costumes traditionally take the form of supernatural creatures such as ghosts, vampires, and angels, whereas Christmas and Easter costumes typically portray mythical holiday characters, such as Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. Costumes may also be used to portray various other character themes during secular holidays, such as an Uncle Sam costume being worn on the 4th of July.

Some people wear costumes for erotic purposes. This is generally considered to be harmless fun, but some people consider this behavior to be a form of fetishism.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Costume."

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Halloween costume

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Halloween costumes are outfits worn on October 31st, the day of Halloween. Halloween is a modern day holiday (spun off of the Gaelic/Druidic/Pagan holiday of All Souls Eve (see Day of the Dead).) Originally a day to remember the dead by celebrating the darker and more gruesome side of human existence, celebrants would dress as their deceased relatives. It has now become a very commercialized celebration. Because of this, popular costumes are often mass manufactured and sold in specialty stores.

What sets Halloween costumes apart from costumes for other celebrations or days of dressing up is that they are often designed to be gruesome or scary. Popular monsters of legend or fiction are regular themes for Halloween costumes, as are pop culture figures like presidents, film or television characters.

Some of the most common and popular Halloween costumes are:

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Synonym: Costume

Synonym: dress up (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Costume

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Amusement

Dance; hop, reel, rigadoon, saraband, hornpipe, bolero, ballroom dance; minuet, waltz, polka, fox trot, tango, samba, rhumba, twist, stroll, hustle, cha-cha; fandango, cancan; bayadere; breakdown, cake-walk, cornwallis, break dancing; nautch-girl; shindig; skirtdance, stag dance, Virginia reel, square dance; galop, galopade; jig, Irish jig, fling, strathspey; allemande; gavot, gavotte, tarantella; mazurka, morisco, morris dance; quadrille; country dance, folk dance; cotillon, Sir Roger de Coverley; ballet; (drama); ball; bal, bal masque, bal costume; masquerade; Terpsichore.

Canonicals

Noun: canonicals, vestments; robe, gown, Geneva gown frock, pallium, surplice, cassock, dalmatic, scapulary, cope, mozetta, scarf, tunicle, chasuble, alb, alba, stole; fanon, fannel; tonsure, cowl, hood; calote, calotte; bands; capouch, amice; vagas, vakas, vakass; apron, lawn sleeves, pontificals, pall; miter, tiara, triple crown; shovel hat, cardinal's hat; biretta; crosier; pastoral staff, thurifer; costume.

Clothing

Noun: clothing, investment; covering; dress, raiment, drapery, costume, attire, guise, toilet, toilette, trim; habiliment; vesture, vestment; garment, garb, palliament, apparel, wardrobe, wearing apparel, clothes, things; underclothes.

Adjective: invested; Verb: habited; dighted; barbed, barded; clad, costume, shod, chausse; en grande tenue; (show).

Deception

Whited sepulcher, painted sepulcher; tinsel; paste, junk jewelry, costume jewelry, false jewelry, synthetic jewels; scagliola, ormolu, German silver, albata, paktong, white metal, Britannia metal, paint; veneer; jerry building; man of straw.

Jewelry

Noun: jewel, jewelry, jewellery; bijoutry; bijou, bijouterie; trinket;fine jewelry; costume jewelry, junk jewelry; gem, gemstone, precious stone.

The Drama

Theatrical costume, theatrical properties.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Costume

English words defined with "costume": academic costume, aglitterbunny, bunny girlClothes mothDomino, Dress rehearsal, dress upfalse face, fancy dress, fulgid, Full canonicalsglinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, grayhabit, handkerchief, hankey, hankie, hankymasquerade, masquerade costume, morris dance, morris dancing, motleyrigoutscintillant, scintillating, sparkling, sparklyTout-ensembleYeoman of the guard. (references)
Specialty definitions using "costume": Apparel, Armi daBeefeatersCanonical Dress, Cap and Gown, Career Limiting Move, CENTRIFUGAL-CASTING-MACHINE OPERATOR, CLM, Cloak and Sword PlaysDIRECTOR, STAGEFANCY-WIRE DRAWER, Friar TuckGODIVAinstructor, dramatic artsJamie, JESTERKILTMarthaPROP ATTENDANTregalia, RibbonSANDWICH-BOARD CARRIER, SINGING MESSENGER, SWEDGERTEACHER, DRAMA, teacher, dramatics, teacher, theater artsWIRE DRAWING MACHINE OPERATOR. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Costume" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (costume, garb, habit, outfit, suit, two piece), French Canadian (suit), Italian (costume, custom, fancy dress, habit, outfit, suit, usage, use, way, wont), Portuguese (choky, conventionality, costume, custom, fashion, habit, habitude, institution, inurement, inveteracy, mode, mores, observance, outfit, practice, praxis, rule, rut, usage, way), Portuguese Brazilian (custom), Provencal (suit).

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Modern Usage: Costume

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Everyone keeps asking where he got his costume. (The Addams Family; writing credit: Caroline Thompson)

An armed Negro cowboy costume in a room full of white, Southern, former slave-owners (Wild Wild West; writing credit: Jim Thomas; John Thomas)

That's silly little costume, my thigh's too fat. (The Thin Blue Line; writing credit: Ben Elton)

This costume happens to be a protest statement (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay)

I need the money to rent a costume for the party tomorrow night (The Honeymooners; writing credit: Herbert Finn; Marvin Marx)

Movie/TV Titles

The Costume Designer (1950)

Le Costume blanc (1908)

You're Invited to Mary-Kate & Ashley's Costume Party (1998)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Costume

DomainTitle

References

  • Costume Jewelry in Argentina: A Strategic Entry Report, 1997 (reference)

  • Costume & Fashion Jewelry in Mexico: A Strategic Entry Report, 1995 (reference)

  • The 2000-2005 Outlook for Costume Jewelry in Asia (reference)

  • The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Costume Jewelry Bracelets and Bangles (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • American Victorian Costume in Early Photographs (reference)

  • Costume in Detail: 1730-1930 (reference)

  • Historic Costume in Pictures. (reference)

  • The Costume Technician's Handbook: A Complete Guide for Amateur and Professional Costume Technicians (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Hidden Treasures - Signed Costume Jewelry (Vol. 5) (reference)

  • Signed Costume Jewelry Vol. 2 (reference)

  • You're Invited to Mary-Kate & Ashley's Costume Party (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Costume

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Photo Album: Costume

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In: "Voyage au pole sud et dans l'Oceanie ....." by the French ships ASTROLABE and ZELEE under the command of Dumont D'Urville. Plate 14. Chef Patagon en costume de guerre, Patagon et Patagone. Detroit de Magellan. Library Call Number Q115 .D9 1842. Credit: Treasures of the Library.

Detail of "A diver in full costume making a sensational descent." Cover of "Scientific American Supplement," Vol. LXXX, Number 2077, October 23, 1915. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

"A diver in full costume making a sensational descent." Cover of "Scientific American Supplement," Vol. LXXX, Number 2077, October 23, 1915. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Judy Pike of the US Forest Service in period costume at the historic house on the Kancamagus Hwy, in the White Mountains National Forest, NH. Credit: USDA.

Indian dancers in full dress costume at a pow wow in Browning, MO. Credit: USDA.

George Johnson in costume for performance at the NHOTIC. Credit: BLM Staff.

Costume of the establishment T.O. delt. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Costume qu'est obligé de prendre au mois de janvier un Parisien qui se sert du calorifere-Chaussenot. / Cham [i.e. Amédée Noé]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Children in costume dancing. Credit: Library of Congress.

Four people in Slavic costume, woman giving another beads. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Costume
 

"Weird costume" by Margus Kyttä
Commentary: "Weird costumes at Dipoli party in HUT."
"Centurion" by Igor Beres
Commentary: "Auto portrait during costume Halloween party ."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Familiar Quotations: Costume

AuthorQuotation

Emo Philips

Women. You can't live with them, and you can't get them to dress up in a skimpy Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.

Thomas Carlyle

If the cut of the costume indicates intellect and talent, then the color indicates temper and heart.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Costume

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

There were many differences in their rules, there were some in their costume.

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

We are amused at beholding the costume of Henry VIII, or Queen Elizabeth, as much as if it was that of the King and Queen of the Cannibal Islands

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Costume

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

The Argentine Jewelry market is made up of fine and costume jewelry. (references)

Working women make up a significant percentage of the costume jewelry market. (references)

In the case of costume jewelry, the market tends to prefer medium and low quality products. (references)

Economic History

Switzerland

Jewelry and Apparel: Costume jewelry is successfully sold by companies like Jenny Lane, Pierre Lang or Papillon. (references)

India

A market exists for direct selling of health and nutrition products, beauty and skin care products, costume jewelry, cookware, and consumer durables. (references)

Trade

Costa Rica

Among the highest taxed items are arms and munitions (75 percent), costume jewelry (50 percent), fireworks (50 percent), whiskey (50 percent), new and used vehicles (varies), and wine and beer (40 percent). (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

REGALIA, n. Distinguishing insignia, jewels and costume of such ancient and honorable orders as Knights of Adam; Visionaries of Detectable Bosh; the Ancient Order of Modern Troglodytes; the League of Holy Humbug; the Golden Phalanx of Phalangers; the Genteel Society of Expurgated Hoodlums; the Mystic Alliances of Georgeous Regalians; Knights and Ladies of the Yellow Dog; the Oriental Order of Sons of the West; the Blatherhood of Insufferable Stuff; Warriors of the Long Bow; Guardians of the Great Horn Spoon; the Band of Brutes; the Impenitent Order of Wife-Beaters; the Sublime Legion of Flamboyant Conspicuants; Worshipers at the Electroplated Shrine; Shining Inaccessibles; Fee-Faw-Fummers of the inimitable Grip; Jannissaries of the Broad-Blown Peacock; Plumed Increscencies of the Magic Temple; the Grand Cabal of Able-Bodied Sedentarians; Associated Deities of the Butter Trade; the Garden of Galoots; the Affectionate Fraternity of Men Similarly Warted; the Flashing Astonishers; Ladies of Horror; Cooperative Association for Breaking into the Spotlight; Dukes of Eden; Disciples Militant of the Hidden Faith; Knights-Champions of the Domestic Dog; the Holy Gregarians; the Resolute Optimists; the Ancient Sodality of Inhospitable Hogs; Associated Sovereigns of Mendacity; Dukes-Guardian of the Mystic Cess-Pool; the Society for Prevention of Prevalence; Kings of Drink; Polite Federation of Gents-Consequential; the Mysterious Order of the Undecipherable Scroll; Uniformed Rank of Lousy Cats; Monarchs of Worth and Hunger; Sons of the South Star; Prelates of the Tub-and-Sword.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Costume

"Costume" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.31% of the time. "Costume" is used about 556 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)97.31%54111,416
Lexical Verb (base form)1.08%6143,867
Lexical Verb (infinitive)0.9%5157,705
Noun (proper)0.72%4175,879
                    Total100.00%556N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Costume

Expressions using "costume": academic costume bal costume ball costume bathing costume carnival costume costume ball costume designer costume jewellery costume piece costume play cycling costume folk costume masquerade costume national costume period costume swimming costume tailored costume theatrical costume. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "costume": costume-but, costume-designer, costume-maker, costume-wise.

Ending with "costume": bathing-costume, hunting-costume.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Costume

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

costume

6,294

star war costume

279

halloween costume

3,458

santa costume

276

sexy costume

2,350

pirate costume

248

costume jewelry

1,462

mascot costume

232

kid costume

1,450

batman costume

231

fairy costume

1,385

belly dancing costume

219

clown costume

1,336

costume wig

211

dog costume

1,296

power ranger costume

193

mardi gras costume

1,278

bunny costume

185

child halloween costume

1,079

astronaut costume

176

dance costume

1,044

costume pattern

174

renaissance costume

634

adult halloween costume

165

medieval costume

493

animal costume

164

belly dance costume

472

vintage costume jewelry

158

adult costume

469

the matrix costume

151

child costume

458

sexy adult costume

144

wholesale costume jewelry

357

baby costume

141

spider man costume

344

lord of the ring costume

140

harry potter costume

303

naughty school girl costume

139

costume rental

303

lion costume

138
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Costume

Language Translations for "costume"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

pak klere (outfit, suit). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

veshje tradicionale, kostum (get up, kit, outfit, rig, suit, thread). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏ملابس (apparel, attire, clothes, clothing, dress, garb, garment, gear, gown, outfit, raiment, rig, rigging, robe, suit, toggery, togs, wear), ‏لباس (garment, gown, robe, wear), ‏زي (fad, fashion, garb, guise, style, twig, vogue), ‏الكستم ثوب نثوى, ‏ثوب نسوي. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

костюм (suit). (various references)

   

Catalan

  

vestit (dress, gown, outfit, robe, suit). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(adorn, adornment, clothing, dress), 服装 (Attire, garment), 服裝 (clothes, clothing, dress). (various references)

   

Czech

  

plavky (bathing costume, bathing suit, swimming costume, swimsuit), kostým (suit). (various references)

   

Danish

  

dragt (outfit, suit). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

gewaad (article of clothing, article of dress, garment, outfit, suit), dracht (outfit, suit). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

kostumo (outfit, suit). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

búni (outfit, suit). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

لباس محلی , لباس (Attire, Clobber, Clothing, Dress, Garb, Thing, Vest, Vestment), جامه (Apparel, Clobber, Garment, Gear, Habit, Raiment, Suit, Thing). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

puku (clothes, dress, frock, garments, gown, outfit, robe, suit). (various references)

   

French

  

costume. (various references)

   

German

  

Kostüm (outfit, suit), tracht (dress, garb, leathering, licking, livery, load, outfit, suit, traditional costume, uniform). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ενδυμασία (attire, dress, garb, gear, guise, habit, raiment, suit, suit of clothes, vesture). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

תלבושת (dress, garment, outfit, rig out), בגד (clothes, clothing, dress, garment, tog). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

ruha (clothes, dress, duds, garb, garment, habiliments, habit, number, pressure garment, pressure suit, raiment, rig, togs, toilet, weed), jelmez (fancy dress, fancy-dress). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

pakaian (attire, dress, garb, garment, vestiture, vestment, vesture, wear). (various references)

   

Italian

  

costume (custom, fancy dress, habit, outfit, suit, usage, use, way, wont), abito (apparel, article, article of clothing, attire, dress, garment, gown, habit, outfit, robe, suit, vest, vesture). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

装束 (interior, personal appearance), 衣装 (clothing, dress, garment, outfit). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

そうぞく (furniture, inheritance, interior decoration, landscaping, one's family or clan, personal appearance, priests and laymen, succession), しょうぞく (furniture, interior decoration, landscaping, personal appearance), いしょう (alias, clothing, design, dress, garment, nom de plume, outfit, pen name, pseudonym, strange phenomenon, vision), コスチューム . (various references)

   

Korean 

  

복장 (Dress). (various references)

   

Manx

  

coamrey (apparel, clothe, clothes, clothing, cover up, drape, dress, dress up, dressing, fit, garment, habit, repair), coamree. (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

flus (outfit, suit), bistí (dress, gown, outfit, robe, suit). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ostumecay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

traje (apparel, clothes, ensemble, garb, garment, habiliment, outfit, raiment, suit, toilet, vestment), costume (choky, conventionality, custom, fashion, habit, habitude, institution, inurement, inveteracy, mode, mores, observance, outfit, praxis, rule, rut, usage, way). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

costum (coat and skirt, dress, outfit, suit, toilet). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

костюм (dress, ensemble, garb, get up, suit, the outer man). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

nošnja (dress), kostim (suit). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

traje (ensemble, frock, garb, gear, gown, outfit, overalls, suit). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

kostym (garb, outfit, suit), klädedräkt (clothes, clothing, garb, outfit, suit), dräkt (apparel, attire, dress, garb, garment, gown, habit, livery, vesture). (various references)

   

Thai

  

แต่งตัว (garb, garment, guise, habilitate, kit up), เครื่องแต่งกาย (array, attire, dress), จัดเสื้อผ้าให้กับ. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tayyör (coat and skirt, suit of clothes), sahne elbisesi (prop), mayo (bather, bathing costume, bathing dress, bathing suit, bathing-drowers, one-piece bathing-suit, swim suit, swimming suit, trunks), kostüm (suit, suit of clothes), kıyafet (apparel, attire, caparison, dress, garb, get up, habiliments, habit, livery, togs, turnout, vesture), giysi (apparel, attire, caparison, clothes, clothing, dress, garment, guise, raiment, robe, tire, tog, toggery, vesture, wear), elbise (apparel, attire, clothes, clothing, dress, garment, gown, habit, raiment, robe, tire, tog, toggery, wear). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

стиль одягу, убрання (apparel, array, attire, caparison, cloth, clothes, decoration, dress, feather, raiment, trim, turn out, vesture), костюмувати, костюм (ensemble, rig out, toilet, toilette), одягати (apparel, array, attire, clothe, dress, enrobe, garb, gown, habit), одяг (apparel, caparison, clobber, clothes, clothing, dress, garb, garments, investment, outfit, rag, raiment, rig out, tailoring, things, togs, vestment, wear). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

y phục cách ăn mặc, trang phục, quần áo (attire, clothing, fig, habiliment, issue, period, vestiture). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Costume

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

consuetudo. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Costume

Derivations

Words beginning with "costume": costumed, costumer, costumeries, costumers, costumery, costumes, costumey. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Costume" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: castume, comsume, comtume, contume, coston, costum, costums, costure, cosume, cotume, coustume, Custine, custome, custumal, Dositube, Kosutnik. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Costume"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "costume" (pronounced kÄstuw"m or kÄ"stuwm)
3-t uw" mentomb, tomb.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Costume

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-m-o-s-t-u"

-1 letter: comets, comtes, custom, mucose.

-2 letters: comes, comet, comte, coset, cotes, cutes, escot, meous, moste, motes, moues, mouse, mutes, scout, scute, smote, tomes, touse.

-3 letters: come, cost, cote, cots, cues, cute, cuts, ecus, emus, meou, mocs, most, mote, mots, moue, muse, must, mute, muts, oust, outs, scot, scum, scut, sect, smut, some, stem, stum.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-m-o-s-t-u"
 

+1 letter: commutes, computes, costumed, costumer, costumes, costumey, customer, outcomes.

 

+2 letters: autoecism, castoreum, combusted, commuters, computers, costumers, costumery, costumier, customers, customise, customize, documents, moustache, muscovite, outmuscle, outscheme.

 

+3 letters: accustomed, autoecisms, castoreums, columbites, combustive, comminutes, commutates, consummate, costumiers, customised, customises, customized, customizer, customizes, ecotourism, eczematous, meticulous, miscompute, miscounted, mistouched, mistouches, moustaches, mucosities, muscovites, outmarches, outmatches, outmuscled, outmuscles, outschemed, outschemes, recomputes, sclerotium, undomestic.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Quotations: Familiar
10. Quotations: Fiction
11. Quotations: Non-fiction
12. Usage Frequency
13. Expressions
14. Expressions: Internet
15. Translations: Modern
16. Translations: Ancient
17. Derivations
18. Rhymes
19. Anagrams
20. Bibliography


  

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