Definitions For Costume

noun

  • The attire worn in a play or at a fancy dress ball
  • The attire characteristic of a country or a time or a social class
  • Unusual or period attire not characteristic of or appropriate to the time and place
  • The prevalent fashion of dress (including accessories and hair style as well as garments)
  • The clothes that are worn by someone (such as an actor) who is trying to look like a different person or thing
  • The clothes worn by a group of people especially during a particular time in the past

verb

  • Dress in a costume
  • Furnish with costumes; as for a film or play
  • Involving people wearing costumes

Is Costumes a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
12
Words with Friends
15

The word Costume is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Costume in a Sentence

  • Children in their Halloween costumes
  • A formal 18th-century Japanese costume
  • The days when people, costumed in their Sunday best, would parade along the grand avenue on Easter
  • You're invited to a costume party!

Antonyms for Costumes

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