costume

Pronunciation

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Noun

Singular costume

Plural costumes

a man in a Bigfoot costume for Halloween

1. A costume is the clothes you wear that makes you look like someone or something else. <> kayan da ake sawa don a yi kama da wani daban.

   For Halloween this year I wore a skeleton costume.

2. Harkar bada kaya a masana’antar Kannywood wato Costume, za’a iya cewa kwalliya ta biya kudin sabulu, in ji Mustapha Usman [1]

Verb

Plain form (yanzu) costume

3rd-person singular (ana cikin yi) costumes

Past tense (ya wuce) costumeed

Past participle (ya wuce) costumeed

Present participle (ana cikin yi) costumeing

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.

   Seated on the carpet, by the side of this basin, was seen Mr. Rochester, costumed in shawls --1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter XVIII