CIGAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cigar mean? 

• CIGAR (noun)
  The noun CIGAR has 1 sense:

1. a roll of tobacco for smoking

  Familiarity information: CIGAR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CIGAR (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)

 Context examples 

Here’s a cigar, and the doctor has a prescription containing hot water and a lemon, which is good medicine on a night like this.

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

Come into the billiard-room and have a quiet cigar.

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

I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco.

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

Then you passed out and closed the window, standing on the lawn outside smoking a cigar and watching what occurred.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It can be rolled up and smoked like a cigarette or cigar or smoked in a pipe.

(Marijuana, NIH: National Institute on Drug Abuse)

Smoke that is emitted from burning tobacco, including cigarette, pipe and cigar, and from tobacco smoke exhaled by smokers.

(Environmental tobacco smoke, NCI Thesaurus)

Cigars contain nicotine and many cancer-causing chemicals that are harmful to both smokers and nonsmokers.

(Cigar, NCI Dictionary)

The act of inhaling smoke from dried tobacco that is rolled up and called a cigar.

(Cigar Smoking, NCI Thesaurus)

A device that has the shape of a cigarette, cigar, or pen and does not contain tobacco.

(E-cigarette, NCI Dictionary)

A small cigar similar in size to a cigarette.

(Cigarillo, NCI Thesaurus)