Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small roll of finely cut tobacco for smoking, enclosed in a wrapper of thin paper.
- n. A similar roll of another substance, such as a tobacco substitute or marijuana.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A small cigar made of finely cut tobacco rolled up in an envelop of tobacco, corn-husk, or thin paper, generally rice-paper, so as to form a cylinder open at both ends.
Wiktionary
- n. Tobacco, marijuana, or other substances, in a thin roll wrapped with paper, intended to be smoked.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A little cigar; a little fine tobacco rolled in paper for smoking.
WordNet 3.0
- n. finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking
Etymologies
- French cigarette, from cigare, from Spanish cigarro + diminutive suffix -ette (Wiktionary)
- French, diminutive of cigare, cigar, from Spanish cigarro; see cigar. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Mom - Jeremy, give your sister back her cigarette, she HAS been saveing it for three hours me - * snickers** grabs cigarette** laughs as I walk away*”
“A cynic, my dear Arthur (_he opens case deliberately, puts cigarette in mouth, and extracts gold match-box from right-hand trouser_) is a man who (_strikes match_) knows the price of (_lights cigarette_) -- everything, and (_standing with match in one hand and cigarette in the other_) the value of --- pff (_blows out match_) of (_inhales deeply from cigarette and blows out a cloud of smoke_) -- nothing.”
“The plaintiff moved for summary judgment to preclude assertion of the Correia defense, arguing that the Correia defense should, as a matter of law, be unavailable because a cigarette is an inherently dangerous product that causes injury when used for its ordinary purpose.”
Mass. Supreme Judicial Court Bars Big Tobacco Defense: Can't Blame the Smoker
“For some reason, he began thinking of his Columbia days and chuckled to himself when he remembered what they call a cigarette in England.”
“Last week Reynolds American and Altria Group reported declines in cigarette sales.”
“Anyway, an alert reader points out that a new, "fire-safe" type of cigarette is being foisted on the puffing public, by governmental mandate, and the new smokes are not going over well with the addicted consumers.”
“The cost of the program is funded by an increase in cigarette taxes of 62 cents per pack.”
“Still, humans are inadvertently carpeting the planet in cigarette butts.”
“A source that can highlight why the toxins in cigarette smoke are so uniquely hazardous that they somehow manage to define the truism that, you know, the actual dose of the toxin in question is important”
“A source that can highlight why the toxins in cigarette smoke are so uniquely hazardous that they somehow manage to define the truism that, you know, the actual dose of the toxin in question is important.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cigarette’.
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Loanwords
Since English is littered with loanwords, everything could conceivably end up here. But there is a distinct feeling associated with these.. maybe they're young additions to the English language; I ...
iceberg, fjord, firth, abbey, abyss, anorak, apartheid, assassin, avalanche, avocado, balaclava, banana and 104 more...
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
abridgement (abri..., accoutrement, accoutre, acknowledgement (..., opposite, advert, adaptor, adapter, sticking plaster, advertise, adviser (advisor ..., adze, aesthete and 1196 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
veal, valve, used, yak, wax, wan, teak, vat, vas, strip, use, strap and 4515 more...
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Chit Chat
Conversations that are shorter than those featured in my conversations list.
props, frass, narwhal, preggers, mu, hype, heterotopia, sans serif, cow orker, snicker-snack, modality road, boolean poetry and 77 more...
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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dandy's list
favourite words
cattywampus, wibble, fenagle, whisker, sneeze, wisteria, honeysuckle, clove, perihelion, glimmer, twilight, dusk and 264 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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nighthawks at the diner
being words from Tom Waits songs.
vinyl, cigarette, rhinestone, naugahyde, margarine, vermouth, gin, platinum, wurlitzer, menthol, oldsmobile, asphalt and 90 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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lanas's Words
serendipitous, insouciant, charming, sanguine, dear, odd, quaint, small, tremble, blush, flirt, tryst and 248 more...
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Words
Words I like.
jejune, eunoia, swallow, spelunk, milquetoast, echolalia, trumble, toothsome, synecdoche, taciturn, kerfuffle, aleatoric and 98 more...
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The Pogues
transmetropolitan, lecher, queer, shite, whore, bastard, spew, bloody, waxie's dargle, farthing, pint, races and 91 more...
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Chromonyms
These chromonyms are defined as colors in at least one dictionary (mostly MW3). (Actually there's one fake, for reasons I'll explain someday.) They are all one-word nouns such as "kelly", which can...
absinthe, acacia, acorn, alabaster, alesan, almond, aloma, amaranth, amber, amethyst, anemone, anil and 821 more...
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junestag's Words
postmodernism, cat, fish, rabbit, dell, coffee, elearning, mazda, php, mysql, flash, blogger and 755 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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soul mate
soul mate, soul mates, soul, portishead, wounded, death, depression, hurt, the cure, pain, longing, rat and 424 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for cigarette.
bilby "Cigarettes are killers that travel in packs."
- Mary Ott. Sep 9, 2008
npydyuan Ha! Yeah, always a toss-up between those two. Oct 11, 2007
john Mm, I don't know the word, but I know the moment. It's hard to say what I miss most, having given up smoking--the comforting ritual and cant of it, or, you know, the drugs :-) Oct 11, 2007
npydyuan Is there a word for the words one utters, if one's conversation and urge are intertwined, during the process of lighting the cigarette? The muffled lip, the relaxed remove, the leaning easily to the left, or right, to facilitate digging in the pocket for the lighter.... It is an inbetween moment, a smoker’s favorite kind of moment. Oct 11, 2007
reesetee Ooooh! Do we get awards?? Trophies? Something shiny? *gazing adoringly at oroboros* Sep 15, 2007
oroboros I hereby and hereinafter nominate reesetee and uselessness as Wordie's epitomic, hilariousest standup (er, sit down--unless they stand up at the keyboard?) splendiferous and ridiculicious comics of the year, wait, month, no, week! Yas. I do. *lowers eyelids modestly in anticipation of r. and u.'s relieved and adoring gazes*... Sep 15, 2007
reesetee *cough* You guys are all right. :-) Sep 15, 2007
npydyuan If then that sin stick dwelleth in my maw, I am sick with smoke which sticketh in my craw.... Sep 15, 2007
uselessness "For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me." (Romans 7:15-17) Sep 15, 2007
npydyuan ...matter of fact, I think I'll have one now.... Sep 15, 2007