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Cigarette Lighted Noun Bre ˌsɪɡəˈret ˈsɪɡəret Packet/Pack Light

Word cigarette
WordType (noun)
Phonetic BrE / ˌsɪɡəˈret / NAmE / ˈsɪɡəret /
Example
  • a packet/pack of cigarettes
  • to light a cigarette
  • a cigarette dangled from his lips.
  • he accidentally dropped a lighted cigarette on the chair.
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cigarette

(noun)BrE / ˌsɪɡəˈret / NAmE / ˈsɪɡəret /
  1. a thin tube of paper filled with tobacco, for smoking
    • a packet/pack of cigarettes
    • to light a cigarette

    Extra Examples

    • A cigarette dangled from his lips.
    • He accidentally dropped a lighted cigarette on the chair.
    • He pulled on his cigarette and waited for the train.
    • He was sitting on the bench taking a cigarette break.
    • He’d bummed a cigarette from someone.
    • Please extinguish all cigarettes now.
    • Posters advertising cigarettes have to carry government health warnings.
    • She rolls her own cigarettes.
    • She slipped outside for an illicit cigarette.
    • She smokes a pack/packet of cigarettes a day.
    • The cigarette burned slowly in the ashtray.
    • The cigarettes glowed in the dark.
    • The old man flicked his cigarette onto the roadside.
    • carelessly throwing a lighted cigarette in the litter bin
    • the smell of stale cigarette smoke

    Word Origin

    • mid 19th cent.: from French, diminutive of cigare, probably from Mayan sik'ar ‘smoking’. Mayan is a language spoken in parts of Mexico and Central America.
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