costume
A style of dress, including garments, accessories and hairstyle, especially as characteristic of a particular country, period or people.
Other meanings
An outfit or a disguise worn as fancy dress etc.
“We wore gorilla costumes to the party.”
A set of clothes appropriate for a particular occasion or season.
“The bride wore a grey going-away costume.”
Synonyms
- outfit
A kind of
- attire
Kinds of costume
- fancy dress
Related words
- cossie
- costumeless
- costumery
- costumey
- costumic
- costumist
- costumal
- costume drama
- costume party
- national costume
- swimming costume
- academic costume
Word history
From Latin "consuetudo".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “costume” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.