cosplay
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese コスプレ (kosupure), which is a clipping of コスチュームプレイ (kosuchūmu purei), from a compound of English costume + play.
Inflected forms:
form: cosplays
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cosplays
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cosplaying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cosplayed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cosplayed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The art or practice of costuming oneself as a (usually fictional) character.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: 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.
It didn't take long for anime cons and cosplay to become a part of popular culture fandom in the West[…]
gloss: A skit or instance of this art or practice.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Central to the activity of cosplay is elaborate costuming, though some cosplays are enacted using a game system.
According to a student from France who went to Japan to study Japanese, "Universities in France are like Halloween when otaku students engage in these cosplays. They take Japanese language because of anime, but they see after a few classes that it's hard and not fun. Many drop out" (author interview, 2009).
Popular cosplays include, for example, characters from the Final Fantasy range of games[…]
gloss: To costume oneself as a character.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: She cosplayed at the manga convention.
Senior politicians have cosplayed as train drivers, ambulance workers, Border Force officials – the list goes on.
gloss: To costume oneself as (a character).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She cosplayed Sailor Moon at the manga convention.
gloss: To adopt the behavior and mannerisms of another.
pos: verb
tags: derogatory
figuratively
often
transitive
examples: Why has the Russian Federation decided to cosplay the Nazi Third Reich by attacking the peaceful neighboring state and plunging the region into war?
On weekends, there was usually a party. Her classmates, free from their wealthy families, cosplayed as struggling intellectuals.
[…] turning conservative white men into amateur commandos cosplaying war wherever they liked and the US into a war zone.
Whilst their stability was generally an improvement on earlier German destroyers, as the vessels no longer displayed a strong desire to cosplay as U-boats, the main armament proved to be something of a problem.
Nigel Farage is a “political fraud and hypocrite” who is “cosplaying” as a working-class champion in order to win votes at this week’s local elections, the UK’s most senior union chief has warned.
Related words: gijinka
Derived words: cosfamous
cosplayer
cosplaytriot
crossplay
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: коспле́йвам
roman: kospléjvam
lang: Catalan
word: vestir-se com
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: cos
lang: Esperanto
word: rolkostumigi
lang: Finnish
word: pukuilla
lang: French
word: cosplayer
lang: French
word: costumader
lang: Italian
word: fare un cosplay
lang: Italian
word: vestirsi come
lang: Japanese
word: コスプレする
lang: Latin
word: vestior quā
lang: Polish
word: uprawiać cosplay
lang: Portuguese
word: fazer cosplay
lang: Russian
word: коспле́ить
roman: kospléitʹ
lang: Spanish
word: vestirse como
lang: Spanish
word: disfrazarse de
lang: Swedish
word: cosplaya
lang: Thai
word: คอสเพลย์
roman: kɔ́ɔs-plee