- a thin tube of paper filled with tobacco, for smoking
- to smoke/have a cigarette
- a decrease in cigarette smoking
- (British English) a packet of cigarettes
- (especially North American English) a pack of cigarettes
- to light a cigarette
- the smell of cigarette smoke
- There were three cigarette butts in the ashtray.
- The man stubbed out his cigarette and lit a new one.
Extra ExamplesTopics Social issuesa2- A cigarette dangled from his lips.
- She accidentally dropped a lighted cigarette on the chair.
- He drew on his cigarette and waited for the bus.
- She 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.
- He slipped outside for an illicit cigarette.
- She smokes a packet of cigarettes a day.
- The cigarette burned slowly in the ashtray.
- The cigarettes glowed in the dark.
- The driver flicked his cigarette onto the roadside.
- carelessly throwing a lighted cigarette in the litter bin
- the smell of stale cigarette smoke
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- lighted
- lit
- unlit
- …
- pack
- packet
- carton
- …
- smoke
- draw on
- pull on
- …
- burn
- glow
- dangle
- …
- ash
- smoke
- butt
- …
Word Originmid 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.Definitions on the go
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