cigarette
English

a cigarette in an ashtray
Alternative forms
- cigaret (US spelling, sometimes)
Etymology
Borrowed from French cigarette, from cigare, from Spanish cigarro + diminutive suffix -ette
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɪ.ɡə.ɹɛt/, /sɪ.ɡəˈɹɛt/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛt
- Hyphenation: cig‧a‧rette
Noun
cigarette (plural cigarettes)
- Tobacco or other substances, in a thin roll wrapped with paper, intended to be smoked.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity:
- No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.
- 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 7, in Crime out of Mind:
- He rose to light my cigarette, then sank back into his wicker chair contentedly. The tea was weak, but not cold, thanks to the hot-plate.
- 2008, Thomas A. Liuzzo, One Last Cigarette: Memoirs of a 5-pack-a-day Smoker!, AuthorHouse (→ISBN), page 20:
- Grandma has an occasional cigarette, as well as Uncle Jimmy and Aunt Julie, and our kids give them crap about it.
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Synonyms
- cancerette
- cancer stick
- cig
- ciggy
- rig (Canada)
- stick (Canada)
- coffin nail
- darb, durry (Sydney, Australia)
- dart, durben, smoke, rolly (Australia)
- death stick
- See also Thesaurus:cigarette
Descendants
- → Welsh: sigarét
Translations
cigarette
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Verb
cigarette (third-person singular simple present cigarettes, present participle cigaretting, simple past and past participle cigaretted)
- Could someone cigarette me?
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /si.ɡa.ʁɛt/
audio (file)
Synonyms
- clope (colloquial)
Further reading
- “cigarette” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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