cigar

noun

ci·​gar si-ˈgär How to pronounce cigar (audio)
: a small roll of tobacco leaf for smoking

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None of this means that the Giants’ next manager won’t be a cigar-chomping senior who hates the modern game and has a tattoo of a sacrifice bunt over his heart. Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025 Alice, at twenty, was left to manage a household of male relations, arranging meals and flowers in a miasma of cigar smoke. Judith Thurman, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025 Tulsa King looms, filling the air with a cloud of cigar smoke. Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Sep. 2025 In its place was an overpowering smell of cigar smoke and a mass of humanity. Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 27 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cigar

Word History

Etymology

Spanish cigarro

First Known Use

1730, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of cigar was in 1730

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“Cigar.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cigar. Accessed 10 Oct. 2025.

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cigar

noun
ci·​gar sig-ˈär How to pronounce cigar (audio)
: a roll of tobacco leaf for smoking

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