Meanings
plural cigarettes · alternative dated cigaret
- A small cigar consisting of tobacco or another substance, wrapped up in a thin roll with paper, intended for smoking.
Grandma has an occasional cigarette, as well as Uncle Jimmy and Aunt Julie, and our kids give them crap about it.
2008, Thomas A. Liuzzo, One Last Cigarette: Memoirs of a 5-pack-a-day Smoker!, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 203 more examples
No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 46He rose to light my cigarette, then sank back into his wicker chair contentedly. The tea was weak, but not cold, thanks to the hot-plate.
1956, Delano Ames, chapter 7, in Crime out of MindTobacconist: 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 simple nicotinal arsenous monoxid preparation taken bronchially as an infumation. Patient: Infumation? Tobacconist: Yes, you just light the end and breathe it. Patient: What, like cigarettes? 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, called tobacco. Patient: But medicated? Tobacconist: Medicated? No. Patient: These are ordinary cigarettes? 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.
1989 January 27, Stephen Fry et al., “Doctor Tobacco”, in A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Season 1, Episode 3Synonyms: bine, blem, bogie, boagie, butt, cancerette, cancer stick, boon
present singular third person cigarettes · participle present cigaretting · participle past cigaretted · past cigaretted · alternative dated cigaret
- rareslangtransitiveTo give someone a cigarette, or to light one for them.
Could someone cigarette me?
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA small cigar consisting of tobacco or another substance, wrapped up in a thin roll with paper, intended for smoking.
More synonyms by meaning
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Afrikaans sigaret
- sigaretthin roll of tobacco made for smoking
Arabic سِيجَارَة
- سِيجَارَة (sigāra)thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
Basque zigarreta
- zigarretathin roll of tobacco made for smoking
Bengali সিগারেট
- সিগারেট (śigareṭ)thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
Bulgarian цига́ра
- цига́ра (cigára)thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
Catalan cigarret
- cigarretthin roll of tobacco made for smoking
Chinese Cantonese 煙仔 /烟仔, 煙 /烟
- 煙仔 /烟仔 (jin¹ zai²)thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
- 煙 /烟 (jin¹)thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
- 香煙 /香烟 (hoeng¹ jin¹)thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
Chinese Mandarin 香煙 /香烟, 紙煙 /纸烟
- 香煙 /香烟 (xiāngyān)thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
- 紙煙 /纸烟 (zhǐyān)thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
- 捲煙 /卷烟 (juǎnyān)thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
- 煙 /烟 (yān)thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
- 煙捲兒 /烟卷儿 (yānjuǎnr)thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
Czech cigareta
- cigaretathin roll of tobacco made for smoking
Danish cigaret
- cigaretthin roll of tobacco made for smoking
Dutch sigaret
- sigaretthin roll of tobacco made for smoking
Esperanto cigaredo
- cigaredothin roll of tobacco made for smoking
Estonian sigaret, suits
- sigaretthin roll of tobacco made for smoking
- suitsthin roll of tobacco made for smoking
- tobithin roll of tobacco made for smoking
Finnish savuke, tupakka
- savukethin roll of tobacco made for smoking
- tupakkathin roll of tobacco made for smoking
- sätkäthin roll of tobacco made for smoking
- röökithin roll of tobacco made for smoking
French cigarette
- cigarettethin roll of tobacco made for smoking
German Zigarette, Kippe
- Zigarettethin roll of tobacco made for smoking
- Kippethin roll of tobacco made for smoking
Greek τσιγάρο
- τσιγάρο (tsigáro)thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
Hebrew סִיגַרְיָה
- סִיגַרְיָה (sigárya)thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
Hindi सिगरेट, सिग्रेट
- सिगरेट (sigreṭ)thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
- सिग्रेट (sigreṭ)thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
- सुट्टा (suṭṭā)thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
- बीड़ी (bīṛī)thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
Hungarian cigaretta
- cigarettathin roll of tobacco made for smoking
Icelandic sígaretta, sígó
- sígarettathin roll of tobacco made for smoking
- sígóthin roll of tobacco made for smoking
Indonesian rokok
- rokokthin roll of tobacco made for smoking
Irish toitín
- toitínthin roll of tobacco made for smoking
Italian sigaretta
- sigarettathin roll of tobacco made for smoking
Japanese タバコ, たばこ
- タバコ (tabako)thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
- たばこ (tabako)thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
- 煙草thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
- 紙巻き煙草 (kamimaki tabako)thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
Korean 담배, 궐련
- 담배 (dambae)thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
- 궐련 (gwollyeon)thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
- 연초 (yeoncho)thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
Latin sigarellum
- sigarellumthin roll of tobacco made for smoking
Latvian cigarete, papiross
- cigaretethin roll of tobacco made for smoking
- papirossthin roll of tobacco made for smoking
Lithuanian cigaretė, papirosas
- cigaretėthin roll of tobacco made for smoking
- papirosasthin roll of tobacco made for smoking
Malay rokok, sigaret
- rokokthin roll of tobacco made for smoking
- sigaretthin roll of tobacco made for smoking
Norwegian Bokmål sigarett
- sigarettthin roll of tobacco made for smoking
Polish papieros, cygareta
- papierosthin roll of tobacco made for smoking
- cygaretathin roll of tobacco made for smoking
Portuguese cigarro
- cigarrothin roll of tobacco made for smoking
Punjabi ਸਿਗਰੇਟ
- ਸਿਗਰੇਟ (sigreṭ)thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
Romanian țigară, țigaretă
- țigarăthin roll of tobacco made for smoking
- țigaretăthin roll of tobacco made for smoking
Russian сигаре́та, папиро́са
- сигаре́та (sigaréta)thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
- папиро́са (papirósa)thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
- сига́рка (sigárka)thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
Scottish Gaelic toitean, toiteag
- toiteanthin roll of tobacco made for smoking
- toiteagthin roll of tobacco made for smoking
Slovak cigareta
- cigaretathin roll of tobacco made for smoking
Spanish cigarrillo, pitillo
- cigarrillothin roll of tobacco made for smoking
- pitillothin roll of tobacco made for smoking
- bambánthin roll of tobacco made for smoking
Swahili sigara, msokoto
- sigarathin roll of tobacco made for smoking
- msokotothin roll of tobacco made for smoking
Swedish cigarett
- cigarettthin roll of tobacco made for smoking
Tagalog sigarilyo, yosi
- sigarilyothin roll of tobacco made for smoking
- yosithin roll of tobacco made for smoking
Tamil சிகரெட்
- சிகரெட் (cikareṭ)thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
Thai ยาสูบ, บุหรี่
- ยาสูบ (yaa-sùup)thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
- บุหรี่ (bù-rìi)thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
Turkish sigara, çilim
- sigarathin roll of tobacco made for smoking
- çilimthin roll of tobacco made for smoking
Ukrainian сигаре́та, цига́рка
- сигаре́та (syharéta)thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
- цига́рка (cyhárka)thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
- папіро́с (papirós)thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
- папіро́са (papirósa)thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
Urdu سِگْریٹ, سُٹَّا
- سِگْریٹ (sigreṭ)thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
- سُٹَّا (suṭṭā)thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
Vietnamese điếu thuốc lá, thuốc lá
- điếu thuốc láthin roll of tobacco made for smoking
- thuốc láthin roll of tobacco made for smoking
Welsh sigarét
- sigarétthin roll of tobacco made for smoking
Yiddish פּאַפּיראָס
- פּאַפּיראָס (papiros)thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with cigarette
Cite this entry
cigarette. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cigarette
“cigarette.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cigarette. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cigarette,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cigarette.
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