Definition of Cigar

1. Noun. A roll of tobacco for smoking.

Specialized synonyms: Cheroot, Cigarillo, Claro, Corona, Panatela, Panetela, Panetella, Stogie, Stogy
Terms within: Cigar Butt, Filler
Generic synonyms: Roll Of Tobacco, Smoke

Definition of Cigar

1. n. A small roll of tobacco, used for smoking.

Definition of Cigar

1. Noun. Tobacco, rolled and wrapped with an outer covering of tobacco leaves, intended to be smoked. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cigar

1. a roll of tobacco leaf for smoking [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cigar

ciders
cidery
cides
ciding
cids
ciel
cieled
cieling
cielings
ciels
cien
cierge
cierges
cig
cigar (current term)
cigar-box cedar
cigar-shaped
cigar band
cigar box
cigar boxes
cigar cutter
cigar cutters
cigar lighter
cigar smoker
cigaret
cigarets
cigarette
cigarette-paper scars

Literary usage of Cigar

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Labor Movement: The Problem of To-day by Terence Vincent Powderly, Edmund Janes James (1892)
"THE history of the cigar-makers' International Union forms an integral part of ... The first cigar-makers' Union was organized on May 5, 1851, in Baltimore, ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Under this heading come also the cigar and cigarette manufacture, ... They are pressed into the cigar boxes for aale, and branded with the name or trade ..."

3. The Tobacco Industry in the United States by Meyer Jacobstein (1907)
"The cigar Industry. To understand the labor conditions in the cigar trade, we must have in mind the general character of the industry. ..."

4. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue by Robert Ellis, Great Britain Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, London Great exhibition of the works of industry of all nations, 1851 (1851)
"The carved tobacco- pipes, cigar mouth pieces, and similar articles for ... cigar mouth-pieces of meerschaum and amber, carved with letters, figures, &c. ..."

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