Cost definition
Cost is a noun meaning "the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor." It has 5 meanings, as a noun and a verb, listed below with example sentences.
- Part of speech
- noun, verb
- Syllables
- 1
- Letters
- 4
- How common
- Everyday word
Cost as a noun
the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor
the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold)
"he couldn't calculate the cost of the collection"
Same sense: price, monetary value
value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something
"the cost in human life was enormous"
Same sense: price, toll
Cost as a verb
be priced at
"These shoes cost $100"
Same sense: be
require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice
"This mistake cost him his job"
Synonyms and antonyms
- price definition
- monetary value
- toll
- be
How to say cost
Cost has 1 syllable and rhymes with dost. Syllable counts and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.
Words that rhyme with cost
- dost
- prost
- bossed
COST in word games
- Scrabble
- 6
- Words With Friends
- 7
- Anagrams
- 2
Is COST a valid Scrabble word? Yes, it is in the ENABLE list most word games use. Check COST in the word checker, or unscramble COST to see its 2 anagrams and the shorter words in its letters.
Definitions and examples from Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0). Browse more words in the dictionary.