- a roll of dried tobacco leaves that people smoke, like a cigarette but bigger and without paper around it
- cigar smoke
Extra Examples- He paused and drew on his cigar.
- Her thin cigar burned quite quickly.
- His cigar glowed in the darkened room.
- They left the men to their port and cigars.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- fat
- expensive
- cheap
- …
- box
- smoke
- draw on
- pull on
- …
- burn
- glow
- ash
- smoke
- butt
- …
Word Originearly 18th cent.: from French cigare, or from Spanish cigarro, probably from Mayan sik'ar ‘smoking’. Mayan is a language spoken in parts of Mexico and Central America.Want to learn more?
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Idioms
See cigar in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryclose, but no cigar
- (informal) used to tell somebody that their attempt or guess was almost but not quite successfulTopics Doubt, guessing and certaintyc2, Difficulty and failurec2
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