Library / English Dictionary

CIGAR

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A roll of tobacco for smoking

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("cigar" is a kind of...):

roll of tobacco; smoke (tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder)

Meronyms (parts of "cigar"):

cigar butt (small part of a cigar that is left after smoking)

filler (the tobacco used to form the core of a cigar)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cigar"):

cheroot (a cigar with both ends cut flat)

cigarillo (small cigar or cigarette wrapped in tobacco instead of paper)

claro (a cigar made with light-colored tobacco)

corona (a long cigar with blunt ends)

panatela; panetela; panetella (a long slender cigar)

stogie; stogy (a cheap cigar)

Credits

 Context examples: 

“And you know that I would kill an unarmed man as readily as I would smoke a cigar,” he went on.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

We sat down on a bench within good view, and began to smoke cigars so as to attract as little attention as possible.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I said the next day; and he put on his great-coat and lighted his cigar, and set off to walk home.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He helped himself to a cigar and leaned back with a fiercely critical pair of eyes, taking note of the effect which this document would produce.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I don't approve of cigars and I will only allow it on condition that you let me put you into my sketch.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It has been identified in surface and drinking water, ambient air, exhaust emissions, smoke of cigarettes and cigars, and in smoked foods and edible aquatic organisms.

(Anthracene, NCI Thesaurus)

The balcony was furnished with a chair or two; I sat down, and took out a cigar,—I will take one now, if you will excuse me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I've seen him eat in a ten-cent hash-house and pay fifty cents for the cigar he smoked afterward.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Then he had fallen silent, puffing thoughtfully at his cigar.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If you care to smoke a cigar in our rooms, Colonel, I shall be happy to give you any other details which might interest you.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)