Meaning

2 senses

  1. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Acraea.

  2. (obsolete)A costard: a large apple good for cooking; any apple.

Examples

1 sentences

  1. Coster, costermonger, or costard is a street seller of fruit and vegetables, in London and other British towns.

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Forms

plural: costers
Singularcoster
Pluralcosters

regular

Word family

2 related words
Derivedcosterdomtawny coster

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
cosplaycostA2costacostingcostlyB2costumeB2

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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