how to pronounce costume

/ˈkɑːstuːm/

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costume is pronounced in two syllables

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1.

ɑː

2.

uː

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An example use of costume in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… the costume i'm wearing probably not …”

meaning of costume

Costume means a set of clothes worn by a person for a particular purpose.

costume frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word costume occurs in english on average 16.3 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics costume can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that costume can be often used in the following areas:

1) leisure and entertainment;