ticket

English Online Dictionary. What means ticket‎? What does ticket mean?

English

Etymology

From Middle English ticket, from Middle French etiquet m, estiquet m, and etiquette f, estiquette f (“a bill, note, label, ticket”), from Old French estechier, estichier, estequier (“to attach, stick”), (compare Picard estiquier (“to stick, pierce”)), from Frankish *stikkjan, *stekan (“to stick, pierce, sting”), from Proto-Germanic *stikaną, *stikōną, *staikijaną (“to be sharp, pierce, prick”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to be sharp, to stab”). Doublet of etiquette. More at stick.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɪkɪt/
• (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /ˈtɪkət/
• Rhymes: -ɪkɪt

Noun

ticket (plural tickets)

1. A small document that acts as proof of something, often thereby granting the holder some ability.
   1. A pass entitling the holder to admission to a show, concert, sporting event, etc.

   2. A pass entitling the holder to board a train, a bus, a plane, or other means of transportation.

   3. A permit to operate a machine on a construction site.

      Synonym: license / licence

   4. A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, etc.

   5. A certificate of qualification as a ship's master, pilot, or other crew member.
   6. (figurative) A solution to a problem; something that is needed in order to do something.
2. A citation for a traffic violation.
3. (usually technical support) A service request, used to track complaints or requests that an issue be handled.
4. (politics, informal) A list of candidates for an election, or a particular theme to a candidate's manifesto.
5. (dated) A little note or notice.
6. (dated) A tradesman's bill or account (hence the phrase on ticket and eventually on tick).
7. A label affixed to goods to show their price or description.
8. (dated) A visiting card.
9. (law enforcement slang) A warrant.

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

See also

• ticket on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ticket in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Verb

ticket (third-person singular simple present tickets, present participle ticketing, simple past and past participle ticketed)

1. To issue someone a ticket, as for travel or for a violation of a local or traffic law.
2. To mark with a ticket.

   to ticket goods in a retail store

Derived terms

• ticket off

Translations

Anagrams

• ktetic

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English ticket.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɪ.kət/
• Hyphenation: tic‧ket

Noun

ticket n or m (plural tickets, diminutive ticketje n)

1. ticket or voucher

Derived terms

• vliegticket

Descendants

• → Indonesian: tiket

French

Etymology

English ticket, itself a borrowing from Middle French estiquet (thus a reborrowing). Doublet of étiquette

Pronunciation

• (Europe) IPA^(key): /ti.kɛ/, /ti.ke/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /t͡si.kɛt/, /t͡si.kɛ/, /t͡si.ke/

Noun

ticket m (plural tickets)

1. ticket (admission, pass)
2. receipt
3. (North America) ticket (traffic citation)

Derived terms

Further reading

• “ticket”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English ticket. Doublet of etichetta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈti.ket/
• Rhymes: -iket
• Hyphenation: tìc‧ket

Noun

ticket m (invariable)

1. prescription charge
2. ticket stub (especially at a horserace)

Further reading

• ticket in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English ticket.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.ket͡ʃ/

Noun

ticket m (plural tickets)

1. (Brazil) Alternative form of tíquete

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English ticket.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiket/ [ˈt̪i.ket̪]
• Rhymes: -iket
• Syllabification: tic‧ket

Noun

ticket m (plural tickets)

1. receipt

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Swedish

Noun

ticket

1. definite singular of tick