Synonyms for cigarette

Grammar : Noun

Spell : sig-uh-ret, sig-uh-ret

Phonetic Transcription : ˌsɪg əˈrɛt, ˈsɪg əˌrɛt

Définition of cigarette

Origin : 1835, American English, from French cigarette (by 1824), diminutive of cigare "cigar" (18c.), from Spanish cigarro (see cigar). Spanish form cigarito, cigarita also was popular in English mid-19c. Cigarette heart "heart disease caused by smoking" is attested from 1884. Cigarette lighter attested from 1884.

noun small roll of tobacco

Example sentences :

She did not glance at him, but held her cigarette in silence and refused to light it.
Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

He broke away from her with a gay laugh, and lit a cigarette.
Extract from : « Viviette » by William J. Locke

Max, cigarette in hand, was coming across, under the ailanthus tree.
Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart

But he smoked incessantly, lighting one cigarette from another.
Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Chip took the cigarette from his lips and emptied his lungs of smoke.
Extract from : « Chip, of the Flying U » by B. M. Bower

Chip made him a cigarette, but he hadn't heart enough to light it.
Extract from : « Chip, of the Flying U » by B. M. Bower

"Gimme a cigarette 'nd I'll tell you," bargains Tracey shrewdly.
Extract from : « The Fortune Hunter » by Louis Joseph Vance

His cigarette burned down to his fingers as he sat pondering.
Extract from : « The Black Bag » by Louis Joseph Vance

Light your cigarette, man; you can give me one if you like, to keep you in countenance.
Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. Nesbit

Vard, who had taken out a cigarette, held the tip tranquilly to his fuse.
Extract from : « The Greater Inclination » by Edith Wharton

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