bathing costume

Questions about bathing costume

What does bathing costume mean?

bathing costume means "tight fitting garment worn for swimming".

What is another word for bathing costume?

Close synonyms include swimsuit, swimwear, bathing suit, swimming costume. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bathing costume a common word?

bathing costume is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.