Usually means: Outfit representing character, era, theme.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word costume:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. costume: Merriam-Webster
  2. costume: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. costume: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. costume: Collins English Dictionary
  5. costume: Vocabulary.com
  6. Costume, costume: Wordnik
  7. costume: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. costume: Wiktionary
  9. costume: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. costume: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. costume: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Costume, costume: Dictionary.com
  13. costume: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. costume: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Costume (magazine), Costume: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Costume: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. costume: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. costume: Rhymezone
  19. costume, costume, costume (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. costume: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. costume: FreeDictionary.org
  22. costume: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. costume: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. costume: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. costume: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. costume: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Costume (drama), costume: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Costume (drama), costume: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. costume: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. costume: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Costume: Sports Definitions

(Note: See costumed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A style of dress, including garments, accessories and hairstyle, especially as characteristic of a particular country, period or people.
noun:  An outfit or a disguise worn as fancy dress etc.
noun:  A set of clothes appropriate for a particular occasion or season.
noun:  A swimming costume.
verb:  To dress or adorn with a costume or appropriate garb.

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