{
    "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."
}