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{
"term": "cigarette",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "a thin tube of paper filled with tobacco, for smoking",
"labels": "(British English)(especially North American English)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "to **smoke/have a cigarette**"
},
{
"text": "a decrease in **cigarette smoking**"
},
{
"text": "a packet of cigarettes"
},
{
"text": "a **pack of cigarettes**"
},
{
"text": "to **light a cigarette**"
},
{
"text": "the smell of **cigarette smoke**"
},
{
"text": "There were three cigarette butts in the ashtray."
},
{
"text": "The man stubbed out his cigarette and lit a new one."
},
{
"text": "A cigarette dangled from his lips."
},
{
"text": "She accidentally dropped a lighted cigarette on the chair."
},
{
"text": "He drew on his cigarette and waited for the bus."
},
{
"text": "She was sitting on the bench taking a cigarette break."
},
{
"text": "He'd bummed a cigarette from someone."
},
{
"text": "Please extinguish all cigarettes now."
},
{
"text": "Posters advertising cigarettes have to carry government health warnings."
},
{
"text": "She rolls her own cigarettes."
},
{
"text": "He slipped outside for an illicit cigarette."
},
{
"text": "She smokes a packet of cigarettes a day."
},
{
"text": "The cigarette burned slowly in the ashtray."
},
{
"text": "The cigarettes glowed in the dark."
},
{
"text": "The driver flicked his cigarette onto the roadside."
},
{
"text": "carelessly throwing a lighted cigarette in the litter bin"
},
{
"text": "the smell of stale cigarette smoke"
}
],
"topics": ["Social issues"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["lighted", "lit", "unlit"],
"… of cigarettes": ["pack", "packet", "carton"],
"verb + cigarette": ["smoke", "draw on", "pull on"],
"cigarette + verb": ["burn", "glow", "dangle"],
"cigarette + noun": ["ash", "smoke", "butt"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌsɪɡəˈret/",
"audio": "ci/cigarette/cigarette__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈsɪɡəret/",
"audio": "ci/cigarette/cigarette__us_2_rr.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "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."
}