cigar

From Spanish cigarro, of uncertain origin. See that entry for more information.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɪˈɡɑː(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /sɪˈɡɑɹ/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: ci‧gar

cigar (plural cigars)

2. A cylinder of tobacco rolled and wrapped with an outer covering of tobacco leaves, intended to be smoked.

   Synonym: stogie

   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter III, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

     Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped ; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth […].

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     A waiter brought his aperitif, which was a small scotch and soda, and as he sipped it gratefully he sighed. ¶ ‘Civilized,’ he said to Mr. Campion. ‘Humanizing.’ […] ‘Cigars and summer days and women in big hats with swansdown face-powder, that's what it reminds me of.’

3. (slang) The penis. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

• cheroot

• “cigar”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “cigar”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “cigar”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “cigar”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “cigar”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “cigar, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

• Craig, craig, Graci, argic, Agric., agric.

• cigarro

Originally a learned modification of cigarro in order to avoid the Spanish-appearing termination -arro.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [siˈɣar]

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cigar m (plural cigars)

1. cigar

• cigarrer
• cigarret

• “cigar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “cigar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Spanish cigarro.

• IPA^(key): /siɡaːr/, [siˈɡ̊ɑːˀ]

cigar c (singular definite cigaren, plural indefinite cigarer)

1. cigar