English Online Dictionary. What means cigarette? What does cigarette mean?
English
Alternative forms
- cigaret (US spelling, rare, dated)
Etymology
Borrowed from French cigarette, from cigare, from Spanish cigarro + diminutive suffix -ette.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɪ.ɡə.ɹɛt/, /sɪ.ɡəˈɹɛt/
- Rhymes: -ɛt
- Hyphenation: cig‧a‧rette
Noun
cigarette (plural cigarettes)
- A small cigar consisting of tobacco or another substance, wrapped up in a thin roll with paper, intended for smoking.
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:cigarette
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
Verb
cigarette (third-person singular simple present cigarettes, present participle cigaretting, simple past and past participle cigaretted)
- (transitive, slang, rare) To give someone a cigarette, or to light one for them.
See also
- cigar
- cigarillo
- smoke
French
Etymology
From cigare + -ette.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /si.ɡa.ʁɛt/
Noun
cigarette f (plural cigarettes)
- cigarette
- Synonyms: clope, sèche, garo
- Hyponyms: Gitane, Gauloise
- Meronyms: filtre, papier, tabac
Derived terms
Descendants
See also
Further reading
- “cigarette” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
- “cigarette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.