coster

coster (plural costers)

1. Clipping of costermonger.
   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.

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

• Ectors, Tresco, corset, escort, recost, rectos, scoter, scrote, sector

From costa +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): (Central) /kusˈte/
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) /kosˈte/
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) /kosˈteɾ/

coster (feminine costera, masculine plural costers, feminine plural costeres)

1. sloping, steep
2. (relational) side; lateral

coster m (plural costers)

1. slope

   Synonyms: costa, pendant, pujada

2. (architecture) rafter, gable end

   Synonym: biga

• “coster” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Latin cōnstāre, present active infinitive of cōnstō.

coster

1. To cost

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• couster

From Latin cōnstāre, present active infinitive of cōnstō.

coster

1. to cost (have a certain cost)

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• Middle French: couster
  • French: coûter
• Norman: couôter, coûtaïr
• → Dutch: kosten
• → Middle English: costen
  • English: cost
  • Scots: cost
• → Middle High German: kosten
  • Cimbrian: khostan, khòstan
  • German: kosten
  • Mòcheno: kosten