cosplay
/ˈkɑz.pleɪ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.42 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To adopt the behavior and mannerisms of another; to pretend to be someone or something.
Derogatory; Intransitive verb
verb
To adopt the behavior and mannerisms of (another); to pretend to be (someone or something).
Derogatory; Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "Also the popularity can be seen in doujinshi and cosplay (costume play) and the popularity is not just junior high girls."
- "[A]s the evening progresses all eyes turn to something called "cosplay," short for "costume play." A couple thousand Katsucon attendees sit in line for two hours to guarantee themselves a seat for cosplay, which turns out to be a bunch of skits performed by elaborately costumed anime and manga fans, who were herded into a greenroom and assigned numbers."
- "Men, of course, also participate in cosplay and all its attending events, but women make up the greater numbers."
- "The environments and spaces created for and by cosplay provide cosplayers with a variety of spaces for social interactions."
- "Coslay involves dressing up as a fictional character or at least as a person who exists in a fictional world. Conventions and cosplay were certainly not unknown to western science fiction and comic book fans who referred to them as "cons" and "masquerades" respectively. It didn't take long for anime cons and cosplay to become a part of popular culture fandom in the West or for the traditions to become intertwined."
- "No sane person intends to go down a path where Saturdays are spent changing from jeans to a Dothraki pelt-skin costume in the back of a Ford Focus in a Milton Keynes conference centre car-park before meeting their friend Nige (him of the egg-box dragon costume and blow-torch mouth o' fire effect) but cosplay has to start somewhere."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkɑz.pleɪ/
- British English: /ˈkɒz.pleɪ/