cigarette

Or cig·a·ret

[sig-uh-ret, sig-uh-ret]

noun

1. a cylindrical roll of finely cut tobacco cured for smoking, considerably smaller than most cigars and usually wrapped in thin white paper.

cigarette

/ ˌsɪɡəˈrɛt /

noun

1. Shortened forms: cig.  ciggy. a short tightly rolled cylinder of tobacco, wrapped in thin paper and often having a filter tip, for smoking

Other Word Forms

• anticigarette adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of cigarette¹

1820–30; < French, equivalent to cigare cigar + -ette -ette

Word History and Origins

Origin of cigarette¹

C19: from French, literally: a little _cigar

Example Sentences

“For three years we didn’t get any work. We were just drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes.”

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The team is now recruiting people who smoke cigarettes and people who vape nicotine for a follow-up project that will explore whether similar brain changes appear in the absence of cannabis.

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That winter's evening around the table, with a cloud of cigarette smoke suspended in the air and wine glasses drained, Marina's mother, Mariona Roca Tort, began to speak.

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Links fashioned “crime dossiers” that combined written clues with pieces of physical evidence—pills and cigarette butts, among other items—to produce an immersive experience for readers and game-players.

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Our connection deepened slowly, marked by cigarettes and laughter, and those long, suspended silences when neither of us wanted to say goodnight.

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Related Words

• smoke