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Acigarette in an ashtray

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Englishcigarette

    Borrowed fromFrenchcigarette, fromcigare, fromSpanishcigarro + diminutive suffix-ette. Bysurface analysis,cigar +‎-ette.

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /ˈsɪ.ɡə.ɹɛt/,/sɪ.ɡəˈɹɛt/
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    • Rhymes:-ɛt
    • Hyphenation:cig‧a‧rette

    Noun

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    cigarette (pluralcigarettes)

    2. A smallcigar consisting oftobacco or anothersubstance, wrapped up in a thin roll withpaper, intended forsmoking.
      Synonyms:seeThesaurus:cigarette
      • 1897 December (indicated as1898),Winston Churchill, chapter IV, inThe Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.:The Macmillan Company; London:Macmillan & Co., Ltd.,→OCLC,page46:
        No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smokingcigarettes, 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, inCrime out of Mind‎[1]:
        He rose to light mycigarette, then sank back into his wicker chair contentedly. The tea was weak, but not cold, thanks to the hot-plate.
      • 1989 January 27,Stephen Fryet al., “Doctor Tobacco”, inA Bit of Fry and Laurie, Season 1, Episode 3:
        Tobacconist: Right. I want to try you on a course of these: one twenty times a day. Have you taken them before?
        Patient: Um, what is it?
        Tobacconist: It's a simplenicotinalarsenousmonoxidpreparation takenbronchially as aninfumation.
        Patient:Infumation?
        Tobacconist: Yes, you just light the end and breathe it.
        Patient: What, likecigarettes?
        Tobacconist: You know them then. Actually, it's a bit hard to admit but they're basically an herbal remedy... A leaf originally from the Americas, I believe, calledtobacco.
        Patient: But medicated?
        Tobacconist: Medicated? No.
        Patient: These are ordinarycigarettes?
        Tobacconist: That's right.
        Patient: But they're terribly bad for you, aren't they?
        Tobacconist: I hardly think I would be prescribing them if they were bad for you.
        Patient: Twenty a day?
        Tobacconist: Yes, ideally moving on to about thirty or forty.
      • 2008, Thomas A. Liuzzo,One Last Cigarette: Memoirs of a 5-pack-a-day Smoker!, AuthorHouse,→ISBN, page20:
        Grandma has an occasionalcigarette, as well as Uncle Jimmy and Aunt Julie, and our kids give them crap about it.

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    thin roll of tobacco made for smoking

    Verb

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    cigarette (third-person singular simple presentcigarettes,present participlecigaretting,simple past and past participlecigaretted)

    1. (transitive, slang, rare) To give someone a cigarette, or tolight one for them.
      Hypernym:light up
      Could someonecigarette me?

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    French

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    Frenchcigarette

      Fromcigare +‎-ette.

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      cigarette f (pluralcigarettes)

      1. cigarette
        Synonyms:clope,sèche,garo
        Hyponyms:Gitane,Gauloise
        Meronyms:filtre,papier,tabac

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