To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price.
This shirt cost $50, while this was cheaper at only $30.
To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of.
Trying to rescue the man from the burning building cost them their lives.
To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
to do him wanton rites, which cost them woe
Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used.
The total cost of the new complex was an estimated $1.5 million.
Manner; way; means; available course; contrivance.
A rib; a side.
A surname.
From Middle English costen, from Old French coster, couster (“to cost”), from Medieval Latin cōstō, from Latin cōnstō (“stand together”).
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betwixt the costs of a ship