costume

costume is a 7-letter English word with 9 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Dress in general; esp., the distinctive style of dress of a people, class, or period. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 14 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Dress in general; esp., the distinctive style of dress of a people, class, or period.
2. noun. Such an arrangement of accessories, as in a picture, statue, poem, or play, as is appropriate to the time, place, or other circumstances represented or described.
3. noun. A character dress, used at fancy balls or for dramatic purposes.
4. noun. the attire worn in a play or at a fancy dress ball

   "he won the prize for best costume"

5. noun. the attire characteristic of a country or a time or a social class

   "he wore his national costume"

6. noun. 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"

7. noun. the prevalent fashion of dress (including accessories and hair style as well as garments)
8. verb. dress in a costume

   "We dressed up for Halloween as pumpkins"

9. verb. furnish with costumes; as for a film or play

Common word forms

costumed, costumer, costumes, costuming

Words from these letters

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