SMOKER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does smoker mean? 

• SMOKER (noun)
  The noun SMOKER has 3 senses:

1. a person who smokes tobacco

2. a party for men only (or one considered suitable for men only)

3. a passenger car for passengers who wish to smoke

  Familiarity information: SMOKER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SMOKER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who smokes tobacco

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

smoker; tobacco user

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

consumer (a person who uses goods or services)

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

chain-smoker (a heavy smoker (usually of cigarettes) who lights one off of another)

cigarette smoker (a smoker of cigarettes)

cigar smoker (a smoker of cigars)

pipe smoker (a smoker who uses a pipe)

Antonym:

nonsmoker (a person who does not smoke tobacco)

Derivation:

smoke (inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A party for men only (or one considered suitable for men only)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

smoker; stag party

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

party (a group of people gathered together for pleasure)

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

bachelor party (stag party held for a bachelor (usually on the night before he is married))

Sense 3

Meaning:

A passenger car for passengers who wish to smoke

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

smoker; smoking car; smoking carriage; smoking compartment

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

carriage; coach; passenger car (a railcar where passengers ride)

 Context examples 

The health effects of consistent low-intensity smoking, however, have not been well studied and many smokers believe that low-intensity smoking does not affect their health.

(No safe level of smoking: Even low-intensity smokers are at increased risk of earlier death, National Institutes of Health)

You are at greater risk if you are: • Male and over 40 years old • Exposed to certain workplace chemicals • Infected with HPV • A smoker

(Nasal Cancer, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

A genetic variation may be associated with increased susceptibility to lung cancer in non-smokers.

(GPC5 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

For the first time, the researchers also studied some of the individual chemicals found in tobacco smoke and identified which ones cause signatures similar to those found in smokers’ lung cancer.

(‘Fingerprint database’ could help scientists to identify new cancer culprits, University of Cambridge)

It is not yet known whether e-cigarettes are safe or if they can be used to help smokers quit smoking.

(E-cigarette, NCI Dictionary)

Smoke that comes from the burning of a tobacco product and smoke that is exhaled by smokers.

(Environmental tobacco smoke, NCI Dictionary)

Poor young Mr. Smith, he was a smoker also, but not as bad as the professor.

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

It is not yet known whether electronic cigarettes are safe or if they can be used to help smokers quit smoking.

(Electronic cigarette, NCI Dictionary)

For example, high doses of beta-carotene may increase the risk of lung cancer in smokers.

(Antioxidants, NIH: National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine)

It was the wild dream of an opium smoker, a vision of delirium.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)