See cosplay in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "→ Portuguese: cosplay"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ru",
"2": "коспле́й",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Russian: коспле́й (kospléj)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Russian: коспле́й (kospléj)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "cosplay",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Spanish: cosplay",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Spanish: cosplay"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "th",
"2": "คอสเพลย์",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Thai: คอสเพลย์ (kɔ́ɔs-plee)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Thai: คอสเพลย์ (kɔ́ɔs-plee)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "uk",
"2": "коспле́й",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Ukrainian: коспле́й (kospléj)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Ukrainian: коспле́й (kospléj)"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ja",
"3": "コスプレ",
"tr": "kosupure"
},
"expansion": "Japanese コスプレ (kosupure)",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "clipping"
},
"expansion": "clipping",
"name": "lg"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "en",
"3": "costume"
},
"expansion": "English costume",
"name": "uder"
}
],
"etymology_text": "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.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "cosplays",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "cosplaying",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "cosplayed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "cosplayed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
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}
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"pos": "verb",
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{
"word": "gijinka"
}
],
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{
"categories": [
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"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "She cosplayed at the manga convention.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2022 December 23, Marina Hyde, “Who can doubt the futuristic brilliance of Sunak and co? They’ve given us driverless government”, in The Guardian:",
"text": "Senior politicians have cosplayed as train drivers, ambulance workers, Border Force officials – the list goes on.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To costume oneself as a character."
],
"links": [
[
"costume",
"costume"
],
[
"character",
"character"
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],
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"(intransitive) To costume oneself as a character."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
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"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "She cosplayed Sailor Moon at the manga convention.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To costume oneself as (a character)."
],
"links": [
[
"costume",
"costume"
],
[
"character",
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To costume oneself as (a character)."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English derogatory terms",
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2022 March 17, Aila Slisco, “Ukrainian UN Ambassador Accuses Russians of Engaging in 'Nazi Cosplay'”, in Newsweek, retrieved 2022-03-18:",
"text": "Why has the Russian Federation decided to cosplay the Nazi Third Reich by attacking the peaceful neighboring state and plunging the region into war?",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2022, Ling Ma, “Office Hours”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:",
"text": "On weekends, there was usually a party. Her classmates, free from their wealthy families, cosplayed as struggling intellectuals.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2022 May 30, Rebecca Solnit, “US mass shootings will continue until the majority can overrule the minority”, in The Guardian:",
"text": "[…] turning conservative white men into amateur commandos cosplaying war wherever they liked and the US into a war zone.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2022 August 27, Drachinifel, 2:44 from the start, in Type 1936A / Narvik class - Guide 298, archived from the original on 2022-08-29:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"To adopt the behavior and mannerisms of another."
],
"links": [
[
"derogatory",
"derogatory"
],
[
"adopt",
"adopt"
],
[
"behavior",
"behavior"
],
[
"mannerism",
"mannerism"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figurative, often derogatory, transitive) To adopt the behavior and mannerisms of another."
],
"tags": [
"derogatory",
"figuratively",
"often",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈkɒz.pleɪ/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈkɒs.pleɪ/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
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},
{
"ipa": "/ˈkɑz.pleɪ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈkɑs.pleɪ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌkoʊˈspleɪ/",
"note": "hyperforeign",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
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}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to costume oneself as a character",
"word": "vestir-se com"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to costume oneself as a character",
"word": "cos"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to costume oneself as a character",
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"word": "rolkostumigi"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to costume oneself as a character",
"word": "pukuilla"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to costume oneself as a character",
"word": "cosplayer"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to costume oneself as a character",
"word": "costumader"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to costume oneself as a character",
"word": "fare un cosplay"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to costume oneself as a character",
"word": "vestirsi come"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"sense": "to costume oneself as a character",
"word": "コスプレする"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to costume oneself as a character",
"word": "vestior quā"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to costume oneself as a character",
"word": "fazer cosplay"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kospléitʹ",
"sense": "to costume oneself as a character",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "коспле́ить"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to costume oneself as a character",
"word": "vestirse como"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to costume oneself as a character",
"word": "cosplaya"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "kɔ́ɔs-plee",
"sense": "to costume oneself as a character",
"word": "คอสเพลย์"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Sailor Moon"
],
"word": "cosplay"
}
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