cigarettecig‧a‧rette /ˌsɪɡəˈret $ ˈsɪɡəˌret, ˌsɪɡəˈret/ ●●● S2 W3 noun [countable] 
a packet of cigarettesCOLLOCATIONSphrasesa packet of cigarettes British English, a pack of cigarettes American English· How much does a packet of cigarettes cost?verbssmoke a cigarette· Some of the boys were smoking cigarettes.light a cigarette· Will went outside and lit a cigarette.roll a cigarette (=make your own cigarette using special paper)· It’s cheaper to roll your own cigarettes.put out/stub out a cigarette (=stop it burning)· Kit stubbed out her cigarette in the fireplace.extinguish a cigarette formal (=put out a cigarette)· The pilot said 'Please extinguish all cigarettes and fasten your seat belts.’pull on/drag on/draw on a cigarette (=smoke a cigarette with deep breaths)· Ed was leaning out of the window and dragging on a cigarette.adjectivesa lit/lighted/burning cigarette· Someone dropped a lit cigarette and started the fire.a half-smoked cigarette (=that someone has not finished smoking)· There was a half-smoked cigarette in the ashtray.cigarette + NOUNcigarette smoke· The room was full of cigarette smoke.cigarette smoking· Everyone knows that cigarette smoking is bad for you.a cigarette lighter (=something that produces a flame for lighting cigarettes)· Does anyone have a match or a cigarette lighter?a cigarette packet British English, a cigarette pack American English· Her mother found an empty cigarette packet in her pocket.cigarette advertising· All cigarette advertising has been banned.a cigarette butt (also a cigarette end British English) (=the part that remains when you have finished smoking it)· The ashtray was full of old cigarette butts.cigarette ash· She flicked her cigarette ash onto the ground.a cigarette case (=a small case for carrying cigarettes in)a cigarette holder (=a narrow tube for holding a cigarette when you smoke it)
WORD ORIGINcigarette
Origin:
1800-1900 French cigare ‘cigar’, from Spanish cigarro; ➔ CIGAREXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a pack of cigarettes
- The ashtray was full of cigarette butts.
- If Clarence had lit a cigarette and that caused the explosion, then the Trust would be under no liability.
- Mattie looked in confusion at Alice, watching her cooly smoking a cigarette.
- She was sitting on a grassy bank, leaning forward a little, a cigarette between her fingers, and she was speaking.
- There was a silver cigarette lighter in the desk drawer, he remembered, rarely used now that he'd almost given up.
- They shared the same cigarette and frolicked in the pool.
- To put a kid like Delia in eight-hour isolation for accepting a cigarette from a friend is bizarre and outrageous.
- When he'd done that he took the cigarette out of his mouth, tapped some ash off and studied the glowing end.
- When Madeleine offered him a cigarette, he hesitated, then took one.
WORD SETS
ashtray, nounbaccy, nounbriar, nounbutt, nouncheroot, nouncigar, nouncigarette, nouncigarette butt, nouncigarette holder, nouncigarette lighter, nouncigarette paper, nounciggy, noundog-end, noundrag, nounfilter tip, nounlighter, nounmenthol, nounmentholated, adjectivenicotine, nounnicotine patch, nounnon-smoker, nounnon-smoking, adjectivepassive smoking, nounpipe, nounpipe cleaner, nounroll, verbroll-up, nounshag, nounsmoke, nounsmoking, nounsnuff, nounstem, nounstogie, nountab, nountar, nounwater pipe, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYphrases Oh no, I’ve forgotten my wallet. He ground out his cigarette on the window ledge.
a thin tube of paper filled with finely cut tobacco that people smoke: British English, a pack of cigarettes American English· How much does a packet of cigarettes cost?
verbs· Some of the boys were smoking cigarettes.
· Will went outside and lit a cigarette.
(=make your own cigarette using special paper)· It’s cheaper to roll your own cigarettes.
(=stop it burning)· Kit stubbed out her cigarette in the fireplace.
formal (=put out a cigarette)· The pilot said 'Please extinguish all cigarettes and fasten your seat belts.’
(=smoke a cigarette with deep breaths)· Ed was leaning out of the window and dragging on a cigarette.
adjectives· Someone dropped a lit cigarette and started the fire.
(=that someone has not finished smoking)· There was a half-smoked cigarette in the ashtray.
cigarette + NOUN· The room was full of cigarette smoke.
· Everyone knows that cigarette smoking is bad for you.
(=something that produces a flame for lighting cigarettes)· Does anyone have a match or a cigarette lighter?
British English, a cigarette pack American English· Her mother found an empty cigarette packet in her pocket.
· All cigarette advertising has been banned.
(also a cigarette end British English) (=the part that remains when you have finished smoking it)· The ashtray was full of old cigarette butts.
· She flicked her cigarette ash onto the ground.
(=a small case for carrying cigarettes in)
(=a narrow tube for holding a cigarette when you smoke it)
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Oh no, I’ve forgotten my wallet. He ground out his cigarette on the window ledge.· The air was thick with cigarette smoke.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN· Britain bans cigarette advertising on television, but, with tough restrictions, allows other tobacco advertising.· In addition, government policies need to be believable; banning cigarette advertising would almost certainly cut consumption.· This suggests they tend to pay more attention to cigarette advertising.· Michel Charasse has put forward an amendment which would allow cigarette advertising at the Grand Prix.
· It is subject to grease and grime from the hands, occasional coffee spills, cigarette ash, dead flies and sandwich crumbs.· It was unlike Jasper not to object to cigarette ash, in ravioli.· It feeds largely on ants whose remains can be found in the birds droppings, which resemble cigarette ash.· Madeleine put down her pen and knocked her cigarette ash into a blue Limoges dish like a saucer.· For example, the cigarette ash referred to above remains in place some 24 hours after being discovered!· He tapped his cigarette ash on the floor.· He smoked constantly and his clothes were always smeared with cigarette ash.
· Do you know of any discos or clubs in your area listing events under a cigarette brand name?
· They showed a young man whose swollen back was a mass of cigarette burns and bruises.· One matinee jacket arrived with a cigarette burn in the middle of the back.· During his 18-month ordeal Ryan regularly went home covered in cigarette burns and bruises.· The Formica-topped tables were scarred with cigarette burns and discoloured by spilled coffee.· Hermes or Ermenegildo Zegna were dotted with cigarette burns.· He was castrated and his body bore extensive cigarette burns and bullet and knife wounds.
· He nodded his thanks as he took it and flipped another cigarette butt into the toilet.· She had a cigarette butt between her lips and a genial look on her face.· An earlier cigarette butt smouldered in the grate.· Some had cigarette butts, ground glass and bits of cloth glued to their inside surfaces.· She thought ruefully of the cigarette butt, and of Johnny's small handful of apple tree leaves.· I scraped cigarette butts and bloodied mashed potatoes off plates, dumped half-eaten steaks and broken lobsters into bins.· Food and cigarette butts had been trodden into the precious carpet.
· The door closed, and Renwick could safely stow away his cigarette case.· The cigarette case then falls and she grasps it.· Plummer put down his glass and reached into his inside pocket for the monogrammed cigarette case.· Dominic pauses to open his cigarette case.· He took out his cigarette case.· In the same swoop they took my father's silver cigarette case.· Dominic has had this same silver cigarette case for almost twenty years.
· The cigarette companies started to issue cards once again in the middle of 1922 and they quickly became a craze.· Punitive damages potentially could be much more costly to cigarette companies than compensatory damages.· If upheld on appeal, that decision would mark the first payment of damages by a cigarette company to a smoker.
· Sadat pitches his cigarette end through the window, gets out of the car and strolls to the gate.· The soldier, becoming bored with the game, laconically reached out his cigarette end and burst the balloon in my face.· Being a fanatic nonsmoker and health freak, he made us enact the ritual funeral of a cigarette end.· Maltravers turned to flick his cigarette end on to the roadside.· But where on earth did he manage to find that cigarette end?· I have not found one cigarette end or one piece of waste paper.· She sucked, and the cigarette end glowed.· I go colour of rump steak, feel like burning cigarette end all over shoulders, thighs, feet.
· He took the cigarette holder out of his wide mouth and beamed at his visitor, his Roosevelt smile, warm and toothy.· There was a joint in the cigarette holder.· He was carefully not displaying his cigarette holder and wore a floppy khaki drill jacket and baggy trousers of the same material.
· She heard the hiss of a cigarette lighter, and opened her eyes.· There were two auxiliary power sockets next to the cigarette lighter.· It's a portable car phone that can be plugged into the socket of a cigarette lighter.· There was a silver cigarette lighter in the desk drawer, he remembered, rarely used now that he'd almost given up.· Traditionally, the rare earths have been used as catalysts in the chemical industry and in flints for cigarette lighters.· Angry fists waved up, and some one threw something-a cigarette lighter? - at me, striking my knee.· Wristwatch, wallet, tie, cigarette lighter.· Forensic evidence showed the fire had been started in two places, possibly by a cigarette lighter or match.
· The Castano settlement marks the first time that a cigarette maker has paid out as a result of smoking-related litigation.· The latest rumors are separate from actual talks between cigarette maker Liggett and state attorneys general.· That pleases the cigarette makers, who invested heavily in his election.
· For many years cigarette manufacturers survived the accusation that cigarettes killed you.· That damaged the cigarette manufacturers more than you might imagine.· I challenge the cigarette manufacturers rather than support them.
· He fished out his crumpled cigarette pack and lit up.· So the red lighter and cigarette pack had just been props for the pub scene.· Campaigners, for example, are demanding strong warnings on cigarette packs.
· Napkins and old cigarette packets did not, sadly, put in an appearance.· Then he searched his pockets and took out a cigarette packet and shook it, but it was empty.· He crunched pea-nut shells under his feet and waded ankle-deep in ice-cream cartons, paper bags, cigarette packets, half-eaten apples.· Bodie upturned the waste bin and sorted through the small pile of chewing-gum wrappers, empty cigarette packets, and cigarette butts.· He taps the cigarette packet round and round on the table surface.· You can't just discard me like an empty cigarette packet.
· But before the plan gets under way tobacco sellers will be sent a letter advising them of cigarette sale rules.· Clinton is the first president to challenge tobacco companies to halt cigarette sales to teen-agers, Lewis added.
· Catriona decided not to mention that she hated cigarette smoke.· When she returned after midnight she smelled of beer and cigarette smoke.· The car had a bench seat in the front and smelled of warm leather and old cigarette smoke.· She sensed that mummy was growing tense with all the heat and noise and cigarette smoke.· It began to seem that the room smelled like cigarette smoke.· The smell was similar to the Essoldo's smell: of Jeyes' Fluid and old cigarette smoke.
· A cigarette smoker has two to three times the risk of having a heart attack than a nonsmoker.· The data suggests that it is a bad idea if you are heavy cigarette smokers.· Examination of case notes of patients officially recorded as dying of asthma showed that many were aged over 60 and cigarette smokers.· Why are cigar smokers cool and cigarette smokers scum?· Yes, mortality rates among cigarette smokers are way higher than among cigar smokers.· Fifty one percent of the patients were cigarette smokers.· Meadows was a longtime cigarette smoker, Allen said.
· Heart attacks and lung cancer are directly linked with cigarette smoking.· These days all that seems innocent stuff - occasional cigarette smoking isn't enough for schoolkids in the Nineties.· Lastly, as part of general health care, it is extremely important to discourage cigarette smoking.· The anti-smoking lobby then switched to point out that cigarette smoking was anti-social and could harm friends and family.· Secondly, cigarette smoking might produce a local immunological defect.· Perhaps this is one reason why cigarette smoking is so attractive in adolescence.· On balance the better controlled studies have shown that cigarette smoking promotes gall bladder disease.
· The proposed cigarette tax was abandoned.· Federal and state governments add cigarette taxes, big lawsuits and more.· Smokers would pay an additional $ 1-a-pack cigarette tax.· Congressional leaders left open the question of whether to raise the cigarette tax.· Sharp disputes remain over the structure of the program and whether the cigarette tax should be raised to help pay for it.
VERB· Britain bans cigarette advertising on television, but, with tough restrictions, allows other tobacco advertising.
· The woman pulled on her cigarette, then blew the smoke away straight up into the air with an exaggerated abandonment.· By the end of the evening she was puffing her cigarette and blowing the smoke at Miss Poole in the darkness.· Newman lit a cigarette, blew smoke rings, watched them float up, collapse against a heavy wooden beam.
· He drew deeply on the cigarette and stared out at the darkening sea.· Madame Gautier watched them for a moment, drawing deeply on her cigarette.· He drew deeply on a cigarette and flipped open his thumb-worn Bible.· The waitress drew on her cigarette and studied the photograph intently.· He drew deeply on a cigarette, stubbing it afterwards in an ashtray which held an extraordinary number of butts.
· Willie dropped his cigarette and ground it out carefully under his boot.· He dropped his cigarette into his burrito.· I dropped my cigarette on the floor and put my foot on it.
· He ground his cigarette underfoot and walked slowly towards the Fiat.· He grinds the cigarette into the gravel with his heel and puts his other hand on the handlebar.· Coolly Adam ground out his cigarette on the hearth.· He ground out his cigarette and glared at Litchfield.· He ground out the cigarette and watched her, the burning need in him too fierce to ignore.
· And then holding the cigarette in front of his face he snapped the tip like some breaker of bread.· You learnt how to smoke, how to hold a cigarette.· His body and amused gaze point at the camera, and he holds a cigarette in his free hand.· Patrick held his cigarette in one gloved hand.· He was holding his cigarette, looking for a place to dump the long smoldering ash.· Christine held a cigarette between the fore and middle fingers of her left hand.
· I lit a cigarette and looked at him; tried to determine him.· Eulah Mae saw her sharply strike a match against a square match box to light a cigarette over a fresh beer.· Surkov's hand trembled as he lit another cigarette.· McMurphy lights another cigarette and offers it to him.· She lit a cigarette and closed her eyes.· He sat in the wooden chair before the desk and lit a cigarette.· Then, pulling a large white ashtray towards him so it would be within easy reach, he lit a cigarette.· He stared through the windshield at Spider as he leaned against the hood and lit a cigarette.
· I offered her a cigarette and a drink of coffee from a flask I had.· First, she offers him a cigarette.· When Madeleine offered him a cigarette, he hesitated, then took one.· Langford offered him a fresh cigarette.· McDunn finally offers me a cigarette.· A man offered Marina a cigarette from a black-and-white case.· Nicholas offered his host a cigarette but he declined.· She offered him a cigarette from it.
· Nobody would dream of coming in uninvited, and telling me to put my cigarette out.· I watched him put out his cigarette.· Bethany said softly, putting out the cigarette.· Alice hurriedly put out the cigarette and got up to empty the ash tray.· He put out the cigarette just as the matron thundered past us down the aisle, looking for the perpetrator.· Impatiently she put out the cigarette and got up to move restlessly about the room.
· Exercise consisted of getting up in the morning, reaching for a cigarette and climbing into the car.· When the door closed, Penelope reached for a cigarette in her drawer.· I reach for a cigarette but he withholds the lighter, tight in his fist.· Instead, she reached for a cigarette.· The. flesh of her upper arm hung down when she reached for a cigarette, but it scarcely mattered.· Letia reached for a cigarette and automatically Toni picked up the table lighter and flicked it alive.
· With a lifetime of practice behind him he rolled a passable cigarette in his fingers and lit it.· Dunne rolled another cigarette, running his tongue slowly along the glued edge of the brown paper.· He took off his shoes, climbed into a chair, rolled a cigarette and poured himself a coffee.· He began to hum a tune, dissociating himself, rolling a cigarette with easy movements.· And he rolled up a cigarette and he says, I want you to pray with me.· Odd-Knut rolled a thin cigarette and poured himself yet another coffee.· Dunne rolled another cigarette and lit it.
· The major's hand trembled slightly as he took the cigarette.· The farmer took a cigarette for his pains and refused food.· Byrne had taken a cigarette from his pocket and was sucking on it.· She flopped down on an unmade king-sized bed, staring at me as she took up a cigarette and lit it.· Then he searched his pockets and took out a cigarette packet and shook it, but it was empty.· He took out a cigarette and lit it, finding it hard to look into her probing eyes.· When he'd done that he took the cigarette out of his mouth, tapped some ash off and studied the glowing end.· She took a cigarette from a monogrammed case and held it between her teeth, grinning.
a packet of cigarettesCOLLOCATIONSphrasesa packet of cigarettes British English, a pack of cigarettes American English· How much does a packet of cigarettes cost?verbssmoke a cigarette· Some of the boys were smoking cigarettes.light a cigarette· Will went outside and lit a cigarette.roll a cigarette (=make your own cigarette using special paper)· It’s cheaper to roll your own cigarettes.put out/stub out a cigarette (=stop it burning)· Kit stubbed out her cigarette in the fireplace.extinguish a cigarette formal (=put out a cigarette)· The pilot said 'Please extinguish all cigarettes and fasten your seat belts.’pull on/drag on/draw on a cigarette (=smoke a cigarette with deep breaths)· Ed was leaning out of the window and dragging on a cigarette.adjectivesa lit/lighted/burning cigarette· Someone dropped a lit cigarette and started the fire.a half-smoked cigarette (=that someone has not finished smoking)· There was a half-smoked cigarette in the ashtray.cigarette + NOUNcigarette smoke· The room was full of cigarette smoke.cigarette smoking· Everyone knows that cigarette smoking is bad for you.a cigarette lighter (=something that produces a flame for lighting cigarettes)· Does anyone have a match or a cigarette lighter?a cigarette packet British English, a cigarette pack American English· Her mother found an empty cigarette packet in her pocket.cigarette advertising· All cigarette advertising has been banned.a cigarette butt (also a cigarette end British English) (=the part that remains when you have finished smoking it)· The ashtray was full of old cigarette butts.cigarette ash· She flicked her cigarette ash onto the ground.a cigarette case (=a small case for carrying cigarettes in)a cigarette holder (=a narrow tube for holding a cigarette when you smoke it)