What does cost mean?

Definitions for costkɔst, kɒst

Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word cost.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. cost(noun)


  2. monetary value, price, cost(noun)



  3. price, cost, toll(verb)



  4. cost, be(verb)

    be priced at

    "These shoes cost $100"

  5. cost(verb)

    require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice

    "This mistake cost him his job"

Webster Dictionary

  1. Cost(noun)

    a rib; a side; a region or coast

  2. Cost(noun)

    see Cottise

  3. Cost

    of Cost

  4. Cost(verb)


  5. Cost(verb)

    to require to be borne or suffered; to cause

  6. Cost(verb)


  7. Cost(verb)

    loss of any kind; detriment; pain; suffering

  8. Cost(verb)

    expenses incurred in litigation

  9. Origin: [OF. coster, couster, F. coter, fr. L. constare to stand at, to cost; con- + stare to stand. See Stand, and cf. Constant.]


  1. Cost


Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Cost

    kost, v.t. to bring a certain price: to require to be laid out or suffered:—pa.t. and pa.p. cost.—n. what is laid out or suffered to obtain anything: (pl.) expenses of a lawsuit.—adj. Cost′-free, free of charge.—n. Cost′liness.—adv. Cost′ly, of great cost: high-priced: valuable.—Cost price, the price which the merchant pays.—Prime cost, the price of production, without regard to profit. [O. Fr. couster (Fr. coûter)—L. constāre, to stand at.]

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'cost' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #664

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'cost' in Written Corpus Frequency: #717

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'cost' in Nouns Frequency: #106

  4. Verbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'cost' in Verbs Frequency: #231


  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of cost in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of cost in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Sample Sentences & Example Usage

  1. Doug Larson:


  2. Gary Schnitkey:


  3. William Jefferson Clinton:

    The fights I fought... cost a lot --the fight for the assault-weapons ban cost 20 members their seats in Congress. The NRA is the reason the Republicans control the House.

  4. Kevin McCarty:

    When you think about the cost of college, we focus many times, rightly so, on the cost of tuition, but we know that it’s much more than tuition. The students can tell you, it’s about the cost of living in your dorms or student housing, it’s about books and transportation.

  5. Tidjane Thiam:

    Today, we are announcing an increase to our 2018 cost reduction target from 3.5 billion Swiss francs gross savings to at least 4.3 billion francs, driving our absolute operating cost base below 18 billion francs by 2018. For 2016, we aim to achieve 1.7 billion francs in cost savings.

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