cosplayer

English

Two cosplayers of characters from Bleach.

Etymology

From Japanese コスプレイヤー (kosupureiyā). Equivalent to cos- +‎ player or cosplay +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Noun

cosplayer (plural cosplayers)

1. One who takes part in cosplay.
   • 2006, Frenchy Lunning, Mechademia 1: Emerging Worlds of Anime And Manga, page 75:

     The environments and spaces created for and by cosplay provide cosplayers with a variety of spaces for social interactions.

Derived terms

• noncosplayer

 

Translations

person taking part in cosplay

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: coser (zh)

• Dutch: cosplayer m
• Finnish: pukuilija
• Japanese: コスプレイヤー (ja) (kosupureiyā), レイヤー (ja) (reiyā)
• Korean: 코스플레이어 (koseupeulleieo), 코스어 (ko) (koseueo)
• Marathi: कॉसप्लेयर m (kŏsapleyar)
• Portuguese: cosplayer m or f
• Russian: косплейщик (ru) m (kosplejščik), косплеер (ru) m (kosplejer)
• Spanish: cosplayer (es) m or f
• Swedish: cosplayare c

Anagrams

• coplayers, polycrase

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

cosplayer m (definite singular cosplayeren, indefinite plural cosplayere, definite plural cosplayerne)

1. a cosplayer, someone who takes part in cosplay

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English cosplayer.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kosˈplaʝeɾ/ [kosˈpla.ʝeɾ]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /kosˈplaʝeɾ/ [kosˈpla.ʝeɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /kosˈplaʃeɾ/ [kosˈpla.ʃeɾ]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /kosˈplaʒeɾ/ [kosˈpla.ʒeɾ]

• • Rhymes: -aʝeɾ
  • Syllabification: cos‧pla‧yer

 

• IPA^(key): /kosˈpleʝeɾ/ [kosˈple.ʝeɾ]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /kosˈpleʝeɾ/ [kosˈple.ʝeɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /kosˈpleʃeɾ/ [kosˈple.ʃeɾ]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /kosˈpleʒeɾ/ [kosˈple.ʒeɾ]

• • Rhymes: -eʝeɾ

Noun

cosplayer m or f by sense (plural cosplayers)

1. cosplayer

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.